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
Rem Koolhaas “doesn’t respond well to having a lens shoved in his face” says his movie-maker son
Glass walls frame vineyard views from Modostudio’s mountain retreat
New virtual reality tool helps architects create dementia-friendly environments
Stefano Boeri reveals plans for tree-covered towers in Nanjing
Cigarette factory in Brussels converted into city hall by trio of Belgian architects
Piet Hein Eek and Iggie Dekkers convert Friesian barn into rustic guesthouse
Five finalists revealed for Mies van der Rohe Award 2017
Timelapse movie by Alejandro Villanueva shows Amanda Levete’s sinuous MAAT museum
SelgasCano completes plant-filled co-working space inside Lisbon market hall for Second Home
Softroom uses luxury materials to create decadent apartment-like Eurostar lounge in Paris
Architecture at its best is “pure fiction” says Bjarke Ingels in new Netflix documentary
Beta Ø Architects upgrades Madrid riding arena with slatted wooden exterior
Safdie-esque extension proposed for Sydney’s brutalist Sirius building
Tonkin Liu reveals tapering tower complex for Zhengzhou
OMA named to design Melbourne’s 2017 MPavilion
Jenny Sabin to create robotically knitted canopy for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2017
“Women are the salt of our lives. They give it flavour,” says Santiago Calatrava
Enrique Jerez and Jesús Alonso incorporate printing press and carpentry studio into house in northern Spain
BIG wins contest for San Pellegrino bottling factory in Italy
Wave-like facades wrap 3XN’s aquatic centre in southern Sweden
Lipton Plant’s Ugly House is a 1970s property with a black and orange extension
Gender pay gap is broadening shows Women in Architecture survey
