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
Don’t Move, Improve! 2021 shortlist spotlights London’s best house renovations
THAD curves prefabricated shelter over historic Peking Man cave in China
Ten key projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winners Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
Spanish collective Lacol wins Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture
Foster + Partners crowns Sharjah library with giant cantilevered roof
Students “let down by their architectural education” says climate action group
Jason deCaires Taylor creates Underwater Museum of Cannes “to draw more people underwater”
Outdoor space has “equal importance” to interiors in Villa Fifty-Fifty
Mecanoo cloaks palatial Tainan Public Library with decorative aluminium cladding
KPF designs trio of interconnected skyscrapers for London
Cheng Chung Design creates restaurant within brick art installation in China
Plans for Barbican concert hall by Diller Scofidio & Renfro axed
Kengo Kuma designs curved library dedicated to Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen
Specifying tropical timber can “play a key role in the climate change battle” says Timber Trade Federation
Neri&Hu contrasts tactile brick podium with minimalist office blocks at Schindler campus
Bjarke Ingels among creatives to join New European Bauhaus high-level roundtable
Lina Bo Bardi wins Venice Architecture Biennale’s Special Golden Lion award
Man-made rock pools at San Diego Bay waterfront double as coastal defences
Foster + Partners to transform abandoned gas plant in Madrid into offices
Nicholas Burns nestles concrete chapel within grounds of Portuguese estate
Snøhetta wraps Polestar car factory in Chengdu in wavy black facade
Boris Johnson proposes roundabout beneath Isle of Man as part of tunnel system under Irish Sea
