Krematorium Baumschulenweg

Stand in the main hall among the 29 concrete columns and watch the light fall from above.

Axel Schultes, Charlotte Frank · 1999 · Berlin

Story

Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank won the 1992 competition and built the crematorium from 1996 to 1999. Soon after, they designed the Federal Chancellery.

The building is a seamless exposed-concrete block of about 49 by 67 metres. Its 29 spun-concrete columns fill the main hall, and it won the Architekturpreis Beton in 1999. It continues the raw concrete tradition of brutalism.