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Your vivid, dynamic and interactive digital magazine Uncube is Out Now! This month Uncube climbed the stairway, paid the ferryman and took a return trip to the Great Beyond to bring you uncube issue no. 38: Death. Indulge with the magazine in some sepulchral contemplation from the pragmatics of cremation with Owen Hatherley to the giddy imaginings of immortality and architecture of the afterlife as recounted by Herbert Wright.

Uncube also has a touching and inspiring interview with Charles Jencks about how architecture can foster hope in the face of our own mortality. The lesson we brought back is that building for death is as much about the living as it is about the dearly departed. It is about how we design, occupy and ritualise the structures intended to accommodate the last act in the hatch, match and dispatch trilogy of civic duty.

Uncube will feature ''storage'' in the next issue - worth waiting!

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Uncube covers this month:

Essay: Memento Mei!-The strange ternary work of Argentina’s Francisco Salamone, Text: Rosario Talevi

Found: A Tomb With A View, Le Corbusier’s Grave, Text: Rob Wilson

Case Study: Anorbe Cemetery Extension, Navarra, Spain, Text: George Kafka

Case Study: Funerary Shelter, Pardesiya, Israel, Text: George Kafka

Found: Towers Of Silence, The Zoroastrian way of death ,Text: Sara Faezypour

Interview: The Orientation Of Hope, An interview with Charles Jencks, co-founder of the Maggie’s Centres by Rob Wilson, Text: Rob Wilson

Found: The London Necropolis Company, A railway for the dead, Text: George Kafka

Case Study: Islamic Cemetery, Altach, Vorarlberg, Austria, Text: Florian Heilmeyer

Essay: The Great Beyond, Herbert Wright on architectures of the afterlife, Text: Herbert Wright

Found: Murder Most Marple, Pocket-sized crime scenes, Text: Sophie Lovell

Case Study: The New Crematorium, Stockholm, Sweden, Text: Fiona Shipwright

Found: Where Ideas Go To Die, The Palace of Failed Optimism, Text: Florian Heilmeyer

Essay: Who Wants To Live Forever?, Arakawa and Gins' Reversible Destiny Lofts by Léopold Lambert, Text: Léopold Lambert

Found: Modernist Monsters, An architecture horror classic, Text: Florian Heilmeyer

Essay: Protestant Death Ethic, Leon Berger’s Southampton Crematorium by Owen Hatherley, Text: Owen Hatherley

Found: Saving Us From Ourselves, The Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier, Text: George Kafka

Freehand: Freehand, Luciano Scherer, Text: Luciano Scherer

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