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
Stable built from railway sleepers tops El Mirador House in Mexico by CC Arquitectos
Penda designs copper “suitcase” to store paintings for Hong Kong art collector
Mikou Studio completes Paris swimming pool designed using Feng Shui philosophy
Perforated brick garage by Wirth Architekten doubles as an al-fresco dining room
Koizumi Sekkei completes house in Japan with a basketball court at its centre
Timber-clad walkway wraps Quebec hydroelectric plant by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Staggered terraces cover roof of Beijing art museum by Praxis d’Architecture
Puzzles Architecture adds rusty steel extension to an old Belgian barn
Chipperfield unveils design for partially buried concert hall in Germany
Glazed theatre by van Dongen-Koschuch occupies former dockland buildings
Lee Chul and Liu Jing knock through walls to open up spaces in a Beijing apartment
Vincent Callebaut proposes underwater “oceanscrapers” made from 3D-printed rubbish
Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier uses timber framework to create adaptable house in Japan
Four gabled towers form House in Kosai by Shuhei Goto Architects
Parisian dance school by Lankry Architectes features faceted metal walls
Stacked blocks form Spanish tobacco and art museum by Losada García Arquitectos
Passivhaus community centre by Guillaume Ramillien Architecture is clad in grass and timber
Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter convert 1960s pump stations into river viewing points
Sponge bikini is designed to absorb pollution from the sea
Dark corrugated cladding covers Mariana Palacios’ self-designed holiday home in Argentina
David Chipperfield reveals £185 million masterplan for Berlin brewery
Half-Slope House nestles against a hillside in Brazil’s Mantiqueira Mountains
