Articles by Lizzie Crook

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Woo Architects reveals demountable UK Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka

March 13, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

London studio Woo Architects will employ the principles of a circular economy for its design of the UK Pavilion at the Expo 2025 Osaka, which will have a reversible gridded structure. The UK Pavilion will be defined by a 10-by-10-metre structural grid, which can be easily deconstructed and moved to a different location following the

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World’s largest museum captured ahead of opening in Egypt

March 13, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum by Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects has been captured ahead of its scheduled opening in Giza, Egypt, later this year. In the photos shared by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the colossal building, also known as the Giza Museum, is framed against the Pyramids of Giza. Heneghan Peng Architects’ design

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Notre-Dame’s rebuilt spire revealed as scaffolding removed

March 7, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The reconstructed spire of Notre-Dame cathedral has been revealed in Paris, with a design identical to the 1859 version designed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Scaffolding has been removed from around the 96-metre-tall spire, which is among the elements of the landmark to be reconstructed following the devastating fire in 2019. It marks a major milestone

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Notre-Dame’s rebuilt spire revealed as scaffolding removed

March 7, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The reconstructed spire of Notre-Dame cathedral has been revealed in Paris, with a design identical to the 1859 version designed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Scaffolding has been removed from around the 96-metre-tall spire, which is among the elements of the landmark to be reconstructed following the devastating fire in 2019. It marks a major milestone

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Fifteen key projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Riken Yamamoto

March 5, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

To celebrate Riken Yamamoto’s Pritzker Architecture Prize win today, we look back at the architect’s five-decade career to spotlight 15 of his most interesting projects. Yamamoto was named the 53rd laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize today, in honour of his buildings where “normality becomes extraordinary”. A common thread throughout Yamamoto’s work is the

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Marks & Spencer wins rights to demolish Oxford Street flagship

March 1, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Breaking news: Marks & Spencer has been granted permission by the High Court to demolish its flagship store on Oxford Street, quashing the government’s refusal of planning permission for a new shop. The High Court ruled that the rejection of Marks & Spencer’s demolition plans by the UK’s levelling up secretary Michael Gove was unlawful,

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David Kohn Architects celebrates “marks of former life” in cowshed conversion

February 27, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

London studio David Kohn Architects has converted an agricultural building on a former dairy farm in Newton Abbot, UK, to create a house and studio named Cowshed. Cowshed is the last building to be completed in a 15-year-long transformation of Middle Rocombe Farm, which has been owned and inhabited by artist Suzanne Blank Redstone and

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Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of “sitting under a tree”

February 26, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China, a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Located in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, the library was designed by Snøhetta to “reinstate the library’s relevance in the 21st century” and aims to offer a “new vision” for the typology. Its design

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Surman Weston self-builds “characterful family home” with three gardens in London

February 23, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. Peckham House was designed for and built by the directors of Surman Weston, Tom Surman and Percy Weston. It is currently occupied by Weston and his family. The nature

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