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Hollywood Forever's new mausoleum is a high-rise for the dead: 'This is the future of cemeteries'

Los Angeles Times
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Gower Court Mausoleum will provide a final resting place for about 13,000 people.

Two of the building’s five stories, the cemetery says, are already sold out.

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is the resting place of Rudolph Valentino , Judy Garland , Alfred Hitchcock , Cecil B. DeMille .

The new structure glows almost supernaturally, with quick-growing plantings casting long, diagonal shadows onto its patterned surfaces.

“It’s gravitas, literally and figuratively. But also lightness of being,” said Michael Lehrer .

The project has traditional single crypts, double-stacked “tandem” units, sideways “couch” crypts and so-called “ Westminster” Westminster " crypts.

Two of Gower Court's five floors have sold out, and the third is getting close.

The team is planning to build connected additions to the north and south, housing up to 52,000 internments.

The structure’s sweeping views of the Hollywood sign, Paramount Studios and the mountains beyond will certainly be draws.

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