Architects: ELLT Photography: Andy Liffner Construction Period: 1965 Location: Gävle, Sweden
This concrete crematorium was designed by a group of young architects known as ELLT who started their office when they won the competition for the Gävle Crematorium. It proved hard to top this brilliant design, a jewel not only worthy of its name but also a perfect example of simplistic functionalism fit for human emotion.
Read MoreSwedish photographer Andy Liffner has captured this place of devotion and dignity in all its beauty and complexity in the series of images below.
Text provided by the architect.
