Lizzie Crook

Sheffield

Assistant Editor at Dezeen

Architecture editor @dezeen

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Articles

BIG and Heatherwick's landscraper revealed nearing completion in London

4 days ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

Construction work is wrapping up on Google's upcoming office in King's Cross, London, designed by the studios of architect Bjarke Ingels and designer Thomas Heatherwick. The vast building, widely known as a landscraper, is slated for completion later this year and will become Google's first wholly-owned space outside the USA.
Naqi & Partners designs Earthenware House in Vietnam as row of terracotta pots

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Lizzie Crook

Art, Sound and Form Converge in ‘The Rule of Three’ Exhibition at otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSEFeaturinf ceramics by Karena Lam, paintings by Hilarie Hon and music by Olivier Cong. The Rule of Three exhibition is currently on view at otherthings …
Naqi & Partners designs Earthenware House in Vietnam as row of terracotta pots

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

Architecture studio Naqi & Partners has overhauled a house in the southeastern province of Binh Duong, Vietnam, remodelling it to resemble a sequence of terracotta pots. Named Earthenware House, the home was designed for a building contractor and artist in the Thuan An City district of Lai Thieu, which is about an hour's drive from central Ho Chi Minh City.
Seven minimalist bedrooms where wood adds visual interest

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

This lookbook collects seven minimalist bedroom interiors where designers have embraced wooden details to introduce natural warmth and texture. Wood is often seen as an indispensable material in minimalism, particularly in pared-back bedroom interiors, where it adds much-needed warmth and cosiness.
Swiss architecture and design

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook |Saudatu Bah |Starr Charles |Amy Frearson

Architecture studio Celoria Architects has completed House C, a concrete home in Mendrisio, Switzerland, informed by the region's grotti– cellar-like communal spaces where local cuisine is served. More
World's tallest 3D-printed tower Tor Alva unveiled in Switzerland

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

A network of organic 3D-printed concrete columns makes up Tor Alva, a 30-metre-high tower modelled on a cake, unveiled yesterday in a small mountain village in Switzerland. Created by cultural foundation Nova Fundaziun Origen in collaboration with professors from the university ETH Zurich, the tower is intended to revive Mulegns – a village currently home to 11 people. According to the team, it is the tallest 3D-printed tower in the world.
MAD crowns Fenix museum in Rotterdam with "living room for people"

3 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

A pair of giant staircases spliced together by Chinese studio MAD rises up through Fenix Museum of Migration, which is set to open in a century-old warehouse in Rotterdam. The 16,000-square-metre warehouse in Rotterdam's City Harbour has been converted into a museum by restoration consultants Bureau Polderman to tell stories of migration through art.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro creates mobile library at Venice Architecture Biennale

4 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

Books help to brace the lightweight frame of La Libreria, a demountable library created by US studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The 24-metre-long pavilion has a lightweight structure designed for transportability and "to support literacy and a love of reading" in various locations.
Elemental presents "most radical" incremental housing design in Venice

4 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

Chilean studio Elemental has collaborated with building materials company Holcim to present a stripped-back incremental housing prototype at the Venice Architecture Biennale that is built of concrete made with biochar and recycled aggregate. The structure, which Elemental describes as "a structural sanitation unit", comprises a prefabricated concrete frame fitted with plumbing infrastructure, from which people could build a home in economically disadvantaged areas.
The Netherlands creates sports bar at Venice Architecture Biennale

1 month ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

Curator Amanda Pinatih and designer Gabriel Fontana have transformed the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale into a sports bar, revealed today as part of our day of exclusive online pavilion openings. Titled Sidelined, the "dynamic sports bar" explores the themes of inclusivity and identity and is dotted with scarves, trophies and screens showing inclusive games played out on shifting and three-sided sports fields.