Gallery: These Colossal Pillars Are a Beautiful Embodiment of Grief

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    11 concrete columns, or inverted wells, contain spaces for mourners.
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    The columns are arranged radially, like a pipe organ.
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    The huge structures recall the scale of death-related monuments like tombs or pyramids.
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    Thin LED lights light the space.
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    Short ramps create a procession toward the entryways to each well.
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    The view from inside a well.
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    Looking up the interior of a column, which is lit via a thin imbedded LED.
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    The structures dwarf visitors.
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    Visitors enter the installation via stairs leading from an upper mezzanine.
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