Jessica Mairs
Jessica is a freelance architecture journalist. She was Dezeen's architecture editor from 2016 to 2018, after joining the magazine as a reporter two years earlier. Before that, she completed an NCTJ journalism qualification in 2014 and an internship at design magazine Icon.
Jessica grew up in Northern Ireland but moved to London in 2007 to study fine art at Chelsea College of Art.
Stories by Jessica Mairs
James Dyson “enormously optimistic” about post-Brexit business
Snøhetta designs terraced stone entrances for Norway’s huge Stad Ship Tunnel
Supertall skyscraper hangs from orbiting asteroid in Clouds Architecture Office concept
Chevron-patterned parquet covers swimming pools and spa house by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Stripped-back holiday chalet by Florian Busch is set at the foot of Mount Yōtei in Japan
Design Museum’s Imagine Moscow exhibition explores six unbuilt Soviet landmarks
CL3VER launches virtual tour of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion
Delordinaire raises High House above snowy Quebec countryside to protect an outdoor lounge
Threefold Architects updates London mews house with monochrome interiors and rustic details
Steyn Studio’s chapel frames dramatic views of South African countryside below its sinuous roof
Luxury penthouse to be installed in Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Lundgaard & Tranberg’s tile-clad building shelters medieval ruins in Denmark
Full-size houses by Ryue Nishizawa and Terunobu Fujimori built inside Japanese House exhibition at Barbican
Huge inclined roof spans cathedral built by John McAslan + Partners on Kenyan tea plantation
Stacked boxes form Bengo Studio’s towering Tree House hotel in rural China
Denmark to get its first purpose-built architecture school
Foster + Partners to create a pair of river bridges in southeast England
MVRDV wraps Rotterdam house around a mature olive tree
Bjarke Ingels launches “silo-shattering” BIG Engineering department
Photographer Sebastian Weiss presents Calatrava’s Valencian architecture as white sculptures
Daniel Libeskind completes larch-clad cosmology centre for Durham University
RCR Arquitectes wins Pritzker Prize 2017
