Articles by Lizzie Crook

Pixelated white-concrete forms resembling rock formations define this sprawling museum by Dutch studio Mecanoo, located in the cultural district on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. Encompassing 35,000 square metres, the vast Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi was created to encapsulate 13.8 billion years of natural history, with a special emphasis on the UAE. It is

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A public park is the centrepiece of Cloud 11, a creative hub in Bangkok, Thailand, recently completed by architecture studio Snøhetta with local firm A49 Architects. Set to open in the South Sukhumvit innovation district in March, the 250,000-square-metre complex is intended to bring together creative companies and entrepreneurs in the capital. It takes the

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Junya Ishigami is one of three Japanese architects to have designed sculptural, mobile kiosks for the Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition 2025, currently taking place in Fukuyama, Japan. Architects Yasushi Horibe and Hideyuki Nakayama have also each created a kiosk for the architecture and art event, which is being held in Hiroshima Prefecture until 30 November. Ishigami’s

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The late Balkrishna Doshi’s time working under modernist pioneer Le Corbusier sparked a career of fun and creative freedom, his granddaughter and fellow Indian architect Khushnu Panthaki Hoof tells Dezeen in this interview. “[Doshi] would never want anyone to be serious,” Panthaki Hoof said. “He would say to me, ‘You’ve been too serious’,” she said,

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British practice Studio Weave has converted a barn on the Isle of Wight, creating a home with countryside views and a spacious living area for hosting large gatherings. Named South Barn, the home was designed for a client who purchased the old agricultural building on a farm near Cowes, next door to another owned by

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A barn in rural England and a lakeside cottage in Poland feature in this roundup of homes with highly textured facades, finished with scaly-looking shingles. Shingles are a type of roof and wall cladding formed of small overlapping elements, favoured for their durable and tactile qualities. They can be made from everything from slate to

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