Stirling Prize-winning architect Caruso St John has been announced as one of six finalists in a competition to rejuvenate the grade I-listed Highgate Cemetery in north London.

The practice will face off against Dow Jones, Hopkins, Manalo & White, Mica Architects and Purcell in the contest to design a revival of the decaying Victorian cemetery.

Built in 1839 as one of London’s “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries, which were designed to ease overcrowding at the capital’s inner-city burial grounds, the site quickly became a fashionable spot for Victorians to lay their dead to rest.

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