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
Sharply pitched roofs break up the scale of Kengo Kuma’s kindergarten in Saitama
Herringbone parquet, grey marble and brass feature in revamped Stoke Newington house
OMA completes trio of buildings for Miami Beach cultural district
Guggenheim Helsinki scrapped by Finnish government
Amanda Levete’s firm proposes multi-storey football pitches for central London
Eric Parry gets go ahead for City of London’s tallest skyscraper
Foster + Partners and Rubio Arquitectura to extend Madrid’s Museo del Prado
Coop Himmelb(l)au combines flat and curving forms at huge Shenzhen art complex
John Pawson converts WW2 bunker into museum of Southeast Asian art in Berlin
Kaan Architecten transforms Rotterdam bank into riverside studio
Image of historic reservoir named best architecture photograph of 2016
Norm Architects creates minimalist workspace for Kinfolk magazine in Copenhagen
Rory Gardiner photographs the Design Museum’s new home
James Stirling’s postmodern No 1 Poultry granted listed status
Dezeen’s top 10 skyscrapers of 2016
BIG and Barcode Architects unveil terraced block for IJburg waterfront
OMA completes Faena Forum cultural centre in Miami Beach
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects chosen to design Shanghai’s new city library
Jeanne Dekkers Architectuur converts traditional Dutch farm into contemporary house and studio
Raumhochrosen’s woodland cabin in Austria provides respite for a life coach
Moon Hoon completes museum for a Pinocchio doll collector near Seoul
Chunky concrete staircase spirals through House in Akitsu by Kazunori Fujimoto
