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
Zaha Hadid’s 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion put up for sale at Chatsworth House
Londoners demand skyscraper height restrictions
Reiulf Ramstad and Dualchas design cliffside visitor centre for Scottish island
World’s tallest and longest glass bridge opens in China
Archohm completes wedge-shaped socialism museum in northern India
Hem House by Sanuki Daisuke features patterned window grilles and a hidden roof garden
Rafael Schmid updates his Zurich home with textured chipboard and smooth anhydrite surfaces
Pabellon Hinrichsen is a chunky concrete outbuilding for a house in Argentina
Glenn Murcutt unveils first images of Australian Islamic Centre in Melbourne
Pad Studio creates prefabricated dwelling to comply with New Forest housing regulation
Moarqs and Ottolenghi Architects wrap Lamas House with concrete screen
Emil Eve Architects retains historic “quirks” in Shoreditch warehouse conversion
Blackened timber house by Bernardo Bader Architekten stands on the edge of a stream
Vector Architects drapes steel mesh to create new entrance to M Woods museum in Beijing
Buenos Aires house by Federico Sartor features textured concrete walls and lake views
Heritage listing denied for rare brutalist building in Sydney
La Granja Ibiza is a members-only retreat with a rustic “back-to-basics” design
MAD transforms Japanese house into curvaceous kindergarten with a slide along one wall
Forensic Architecture forms digital reconstruction of Syrian “architectural instrument of torture”
Rohan Chavan’s public toilets aim to provide a safe socialising space for women
Storage crates form plinths for sculptures inside Microscape’s Tuscan church conversion
Le Corbusier designed Villa Le Lac as a lakeside home for his parents
