Lizzie Crook
Lizzie is the architecture editor at Dezeen.
She graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Sheffield, before joining the magazine as an editorial assistant in 2018.
In 2023 she was highly commended in the Architectural Journalist of the Year category at the International Building Press Awards and was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022 and 2025.
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Stories by Lizzie Crook
Overhanging balconies to unite Albanian housing blocks by Zaha Hadid Architects
Plant pots and people-shaped portals animate Bordeaux housing by MVRDV
OMA designs pyramidal building in China as “three-dimensional village”
Dezeen’s top five houses of May 2026
Metropolitan Workshop adds lozenge-shaped community space to Maggie’s Cheltenham
JR engulfs Paris’s oldest bridge with giant cavernous inflatable
Ten DesignMarch highlights that encapsulate Iceland’s eclectic creative scene
Tour Triangle skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron tops out in Paris
Dezeen’s top five houses of April 2026
Hollaway Studio continues “story of Dungeness” with Westview Cottage
Kengo Kuma captures “sensory memory of architecture” in Jaipur Rugs collection
Populous reveals plans to revamp “home of Indian cricket” in Kolkata
Wind damage delays opening of JR’s Pont Neuf inflatable in Paris
Eleven iconic Japanese houses seen “through the photographer’s lens”
Studio Weave creates stone toilet block in London to “express democracy”
Eucalyptus poles outline Stadium of Life for footballers in Lesotho
ODA skyscraper nears completion atop historic post office in Rotterdam
Parametricism “changed how we think” as architects says Melike Altınışık
A simple guide to parametricism
Seven blow-up chairs that hark back to the 1990s
Kengo Kuma adds arched entrance to Angers Cathedral in France
Six projects that showcase Kengo Kuma’s “humane and beautiful” use of materials
