Mausoleums

They call mausoleums “vaults” and graves are “holes.” ❋ Randal Houle (2011)

So if cities ever want to reactivate dead urban spaces, they need only put some dead bodies there, preferably of famous people, and in mausoleums designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ken Smith. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What is most remarkable about the site is that it is home to half a million homeless people who live next to the tombstones and call the mausoleums home, sweet home. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You look for padlocked sewer access systems in mausoleums. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Beginning with an idea from the 19th century of museums as "mausoleums," secluded places where artifacts were contemplated in silent solitude, Gopnik analyzes how museums have changed since then. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although French designer Lea Peckre drew her inspiration in part from cemeteries, it was not a fascination of the macabre, but rather the structured shapes of the mausoleums, and the colors and shapes of the tombstones. ❋ Evelyne Politanoff (2011)

One by one, the businessmen left, carefully observing the mausoleums they passed. ❋ Augusto Cury (2011)

The decaying, old mausoleums inside are laid out in orderly concourses, offering a parade of names that have had their hand in shaping contemporary Mexico. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

Boats go missing there; just below the surface are statues and mausoleums; and the colonnades. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Take ten minutes to read the gracious epitaphs on the front of the mausoleums.” ❋ Augusto Cury (2011)

The deepest silence of all is the silence of the grave, so the enterprising Conway became a grave robber, entering mausoleums and family vaults and collecting silence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here at the Huffington Post, we have put together a list of 21 iconic mausoleums or tombs, ancient and modern, that reflect people's need to immortalize the important figures of their time, or their own selves. ❋ Manal Khan (2010)

Here at the Huffington Post, we have put together a list of 21 iconic mausoleums ... ❋ Manal Khan (2010)

After the fire, they [built] a mausoleum to [store] all the [bodies]. ❋ Lost_memory (2005)

[Way down] Mark the [grave] Where the [searchlights] find us Drinking by the mausoleum door And they found you on the bathroom floor ❋ Flame (2005)

"[the cathedral] was built in 1517 as a [royal] [mausoleum]" ❋ Beeznie (2014)

I stayed at [my father] in law’s [mausoleum] during [New Years] without seeing a bowl game. ❋ SteelJax (2019)