Lizzie Crook

Sheffield

Assistant Editor at Dezeen

Architecture editor @dezeen

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Articles

Diller Scofidio + Renfro creates mobile library at Venice Architecture Biennale

6 days 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

6 days 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 week 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.
Belgian Pavilion becomes "a living laboratory" at Venice Architecture Biennale

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

More than 200 plants feature inside the Belgian Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, revealed today in our series of exclusive digital pavilion openings. Commissioned by Flanders Architecture Institute director Dennis Pohl, the Building Biospheres pavilion was curated by landscape architect Bas Smets and neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso to explore the potential of plants in architecture beyond their use as a backdrop or accessory.
Søren Pihlmann transforms Danish Pavilion into construction site at Venice Architecture Biennale

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

The Danish Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale takes the form of a construction site, unveiled exclusively as part of a day of online pavilion openings. Build of Site showcases real-time renovation works curator and architect Søren Pihlmann is carrying out to improve the pavilion, built in the late 1950s by Danish architect Peter Koch.
Shigeru Ban uses cardboard and bamboo for Blue Ocean Dome pavilion

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

Cardboard tubes are among the materials that Japanese architect Shigeru Ban used to construct the Blue Ocean Dome pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, which contains exhibits by designer Kenya Hara. Ban has also used laminated bamboo and carbon-fibre reinforced plastic tubes to create the pavilion, which features an exhibition highlighting the value of the world's oceans.
Manuel Herz references "audacious spirit of Expo '70" for Swiss pavilion

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

A chain of plastic spheres fronts the Switzerland Pavilion at the Expo 2025 Osaka, which Manuel Herz Architects designed as a homage to the Expo '70. The spheres, which were formed from inflated plastic skins, contain the pavilion's exhibition spaces dedicated to showcasing Swiss innovation.
World's largest wooden structure encircles Expo 2025 Osaka

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

A gridded wooden structure formed using traditional joinery makes up The Grand Ring, which Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects has used to encircle the Expo 2025 Osaka in Japan. At 61,035 square metres, it is the largest wooden architectural structure in the world, according to Guinness World Records.
Unknown Untitled

3 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Amina Amber |Lizzie Crook

French design studio Unknown Untitled has launched a range of colourful tiles with added functions, offering a more considered alternative to drilling through ceramic when adding wall-hung fixtures. More
Foster + Partners creates "a village" for Saudi Arabia at Expo 2025 Osaka

4 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Lizzie Crook

Angular buildings linked by street-like passages distinguish the Saudi Arabia Pavilion at Osaka Expo, designed by British studio Foster + Partners and design agency Journey to mimic traditional villages in the kingdom. Located within The Grand Ring on Yumeshima island, the pavilion is broken into a series of immersive audio-visual exhibits aimed at helping visitors feel they have stepped foot into Saudi Arabia.