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
Alpine chapel designed by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos as a giant light funnel
Nimtim modernises Victorian terrace to create pied-a-terre for a heart surgeon
Pedevilla Architects creates rose-hued fire station for an Alpine village
Terunobu Fujimori works with Kingston University students to create charred timber pavilion
Architecture schools need to teach entrepreneurship, says Odile Decq
Kodasema creates tiny prefabricated house that moves with its owners
Renzo Piano slashes height of controversial Paddington skyscraper
Perforated screens cover Barcelona marina buildings by SCOB Architecture and Landscape
Kengo Kuma dresses Shanghai tower in pleated aluminium for Soho China
“In the future we will all be homeless” says co-living entrepreneur
Muhammad Sahrum proposes hot-desking and games in conceptual 21st-century embassy
Cerrado House by Vazio features terraces overlooking Brazil’s Sierra da Moeda mountains
Raúl Sánchez uses contrasting materials to define rooms in Barcelona apartment
Concrete home in Argentina is arranged around mature trees and plunge pool
Cluster of gabled blocks form forest holiday home by Studio Nauta
Partners Hill hides Aesop pop-up among the undergrowth at Tasmanian music festival
Campana brothers use palm fibre to give hairy texture to São Paulo house
Paper House Project inserts gridded glass atrium into London warehouse home
Raúl Sánchez uses angled walls to create blind spots in open-plan apartment in Barcelona
Office AIO transforms Beijing hutong residence into coffee bar and guest room
Bark cladding and clashing colours create “joyful chaos” in school by Dominique Coulon & Associés
Robert and Jessica Barker build trio of London houses including live-work space for themselves
