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Oakland Cemetery Park
Building a park adjacent to Atlanta’s largest cemetery poses a difficult design problem as the definition suggests, a park, a place of recreation, contradicts a cemetery, a place of death that evidently imbues a dark and serious atmosphere. To make sense of the existence of a park near the cemetery, the park itself must possess some elements that convey the theme of the cemetery. Oakland Cemetery Park is a stereotomic solution that serves as a mediator between two concurring themes: life and death.
