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
Panovscott uses old telegraph poles to clad artists’ studio in a Sydney garden
Raw concrete and black-painted metal give industrial appearance to house by Tectum
GilBartolomé Architects creates cavernous “Gaudiesque” residence with a zinc-shingled roof
Cement shingles create scaly facade for French barn conversion by GENS
Henning Larsen reveals maritime-inspired pavilion for Rio 2016 Olympic Games
DROO Projects creates golden facades for a pair of Melbourne apartment blocks
Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter installs perforated observation tower in Aarhus harbour
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects reveals plans for clubhouse and spa over a Chinese lake
Bournemouth’s bright blue drawing studio is Peter Cook’s first building in the UK
Huge glass doors open Taller Estilo Arquitectura’s Mexican house to a courtyard garden
Wavy wooden shutters cover gridded apartment block in Iran by TDC Office
Kentaro Ishida adds stripy steel skin to asymmetric house in Japan
Rooftop pool offers sea views at Luciano Kruk’s board-marked concrete summer house
GENS “hides” a contemporary house inside a traditional but top-heavy Alsatian building
Aboim Inglez Arquitectos adds bright white extension to farmhouse in rural Portugal
Grimshaw wins contest for South Korean horse “theme park” and race course
New images show £1.3 billion masterplan for London’s Olympic Park
Japanese woodland market by Takuya Hosokai promotes local food produce
SAM Architects uses recycled brick and charred wood for London mews house
Nicolas Grospierre’s Modern Forms series is an “atlas” of decaying Modernism
Atelier MIMA completes timber-clad holiday home overlooking a river in rural France
Margen Wigow Arkitektkontor models blackened timber holiday home on Swedish fishing huts
