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MEMORIAL PARK DE NIEUWE OOSTER

KARRES BRANDS, 2003-2007, Kruislaan 126, Amsterdam

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT:
Karres en Brands

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Sylvia Karres
Karres en Brands
Bart Brands

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT:
Lieneke van Campen
Joost de Natris

BUILDING TYPE:
Religious buildings

De Nieuwe Ooster, the Netherlands' largest cemetery first laid out in 1889 and 1915 to designs by Leonard Springer, has been developed with a memorial park with very much its own spatial identity. It consists of a series of parallel strips of different widths and designs, some encased in hedges, others open fields. The two principal strips are an elongated pool and a columbarium of sculptural zinc-clad objects containing secluded rooms for the urns.