DEAD, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

摘要

Like people, architectural projects can die, and yet, in remembering them, we can also bring them back to life. That happened with Ralph Rapson's 1968 P/A Award-winning design for a mausoleum in Minneapolis's Lakewood Cemetery. His scheme remained unbuilt-and largely forgotten-until HGA Architects and Engineers received the mausoleum commission nearly 50 years later. The two designs do differ in important ways. Notably, Rapson envisioned a glassy, concrete-framed entry pavilion on axis with the cemetery's Neo-Romanesque chapel, while HGA's stone-clad, crypt-like structure stands more reservedly off to one side.