{"id":22796,"date":"2025-07-25T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22796\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:04:17","slug":"mack-student-earns-national-recognition-for-rethinking-the-cemetery-july-2025-news-architecture-in-profile-the-building-environment-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22796\/","title":{"rendered":"Mack student earns national recognition for rethinking the cemetery : July 2025 : News : Architecture in profile the building environment in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 25 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/images\/news\/news_11555.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-urban nofollow noopener\" title=\"Mack student earns national recognition for rethinking the cemetery\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4720a9d55f26242ac7580a9a685f9136.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Mack student earns national recognition for rethinking the cemetery\" title=\"Mack student earns national recognition for rethinking the cemetery\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Emelie Fraser from the Mackintosh School of Architecture has been named winner of the 19th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/news\/10604\/Warren_D%27Souza_wins_3DReid%27s_2023_student_prize_with_a_vision_of_Udaipur_.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3DReid Student Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser secured the honour after joining four other finalists in Manchester to present her work, \u201cO Parque dos Mortos\u201d, which rethinks cemetery design from a place of death to a bringer of life via urban renewal.<\/p>\n<p>The part II architecture student explored the architectural embodiment of death, earning the praise of judges for her sensitive exploration of a taboo subject and a graceful response to grieving and remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying a dramatic cliff face above the Tagus in Lisbon, Portugal, Fraser conceived a sequence of spaces to transport visitors through the stages of grief, including a hall of memories and garden of reflection.<\/p>\n<p>Runners up were Drew Rumgay of the University of Dundee; James Fan, at the Royal College of Art in London; Kaja Hayes of the University of Greenwich and Lee Thackray of Northumbria University.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/images\/news\/newspic_13307.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-urban nofollow noopener\" title=\"Fraser was praised for turning a cemetery into an urban sanctuary for contemplation\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3f3107d20aa719a39d0f61d1c36ddbab.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Fraser was praised for turning a cemetery into an urban sanctuary for contemplation\" title=\"Fraser was praised for turning a cemetery into an urban sanctuary for contemplation\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Fraser was praised for turning a cemetery into an urban sanctuary for contemplation<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/images\/news\/newspic_13309.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-urban nofollow noopener\" title=\"The cliff face has been reimagined as a sequence of geometric spaces\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0b223f23193ad5142073b39d6a9e5050.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\" alt=\"The cliff face has been reimagined as a sequence of geometric spaces\" title=\"The cliff face has been reimagined as a sequence of geometric spaces\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The cliff face has been reimagined as a sequence of geometric spaces<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<br clear=\"all\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 25 2025 Emelie Fraser from the Mackintosh School of Architecture has been named winner of the 19th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12471,6225,6485,6486,2307,1120,96,12470,14578,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-22796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architecture-in-the-uk","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-britain","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-july-2025","tag-mack-student-earns-national-recognition-for-rethinking-the-cemetery","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}