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
Board-marked concrete house by Luciano Kruk stands on a seaside golf course
Heatherwick reveals Shanghai complex envisaged as “two tree-covered mountains”
Mulroy Architects completes timber-clad rowing centre for Oxford school
David Boyle uses reclaimed brick to build extension to a Sydney terrace
Splattered paintwork inspired by Jackson Pollock covers concrete music school in France
Top-heavy house by Archi LAB designed to minimise snow buildup
Tree-like columns support roof of Ghent house extension by Atelier Vens Vanbelle
Contemporary Belgian barn house by Pascal François is covered in clay tiles
Henning Larsen Architects bases Microsoft headquarters on Bill Gates’ workplace theory
Glass walls and terraces frame views from bright white house in Argentina
Fala Atelier converts Porto shoe shop into pared-back fashion boutique
Floating architecture will offer “an improved way of living”
Budi Pradono’s leaning house in Jakarta built as a “symbol of anti-establishment”
Elevation Workshop builds new bamboo cabins around the hot spring at Beijing hotel WHY
NORD Architecture completes charred timber gatehouse for National Trust estate
Wooden home by Yoshichika Takagi features attic bedrooms and a translucent sunroom
Royal College of Art appoints Adrian Lahoud as dean of architecture
Rural Icelandic cottages by PK Arkitektar have turf roofs and burnt timber cladding
Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito unveil competing bids for Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Coastal cafe by Haptic features plywood volumes shaped like beach huts and Scandinavian cabins
Straw bales insulate monochrome house in Ontario by Nicolas Koff
Circular perforations create natural spotlights inside Elisa Valero’s concrete school extension
