Guildford Crematorium, Godalming, Surrey
Guildford Crematorium, Modern Godalming Building, Haverstock Architects Surrey Design
Guildford Crematorium, Godalming, Surrey, UK
5 May 2022
This is one of seven projects that have been awarded Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) South East Awards.
Guildford Crematorium, New Pond Road, Godalming GU7 3DB, Surrey, south east England, UK
Design: Haverstock, Architects
photo : Simon Kennedy
Guildford Crematorium, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK
Jury Report
Visitors to Haverstock?s Guildford Crematorium are first greeted from the car park by an unprepossessing brick and concrete wall. After this somewhat underwhelming start, the project simply gets better and better.
The new-build crematorium was designed in close collaboration with Guildford Borough Council and their design team, and the thoroughness of this process is evident in the way that the functions of the building have been carefully orchestrated to manage the journey of mourners and to ensure that the functional aspects of the site do not intrude on the experience of visitors.
photo : Simon Kennedy
But it is this secular project?s powerful abstraction of historic typologies that gives it such character. The car park wall culminates in a colonnaded gateway ? and, once the visitor has crossed this threshold, the spaces of the complex open up into a world of colonnades and garden courts, all sitting beneath a strong horizontal roof datum. The datum gives a clear indication that we are at a place dominated by ...
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