The woodland chapel in Stockholm, Sweden is one of the first projects that Gunnar Asplund would design. The chapel is located inside the skogskyrkogården cemetery. Shortly before designing the Woodland Chapel, Asplund had been to a wedding in Denmark. The wedding venue was very fascinating to Asplund, so he decided that he would design the chapel similarly. The design from Denmark that Asplund would borrow was a very simple tree line behind the chapel.

The building design is a very simple one, with nothing extreme to cause it to stand out, but yet it does to me. I think I understand Asplund’s odd fascination with the design. Nothing about this building should be intriguing or fascinating, but the simplicity of the design combined with the treeline is a great design. While the design was simple, each and every aspect of this building was thought out in detail. One of the most interesting facts about this building is that the keyhole to the front door is in the shape of the eye of a skull. This was a very simple, but still a very appealing design that I think is fantastic.