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
Lakeside holiday home by Maximilian Eisenköck has gridded blackened-timber walls
Six designs unveiled in shortlist for Bath Quays Bridge competition
Hans Abaton styles children’s dormitory at Esther Koplowitz Foundation as row of colourful houses
Curved lightwell cuts through 3.5-metre-wide Vietnam townhouse by Kientruc O
Green canopy by Garis Architects spans the grounds of community centre in Malaysia
Curving stone walls wrap individual blocks in Beijing housing complex by UNStudio
Richard Rogers’ prefabricated housing for homeless people opens in south London
Slovenian mountain cabin by OFIS and Harvard students shelters climbers from extreme weather
PPA Architectures completes gallery space and residence overlooking a Toulouse golf course
Cast-concrete Galway Picture Palace by dePaor Architects stands behind a Georgian terrace
Folded concrete canopy shelters Spanish bus station by Ismo Arquitectura
Blackened timber cabins by Cheshire Architects overlook the Tasman Sea
Shingled community centres by Sophus Søbye Arkitekter face into Copenhagen parkland
Vokes and Peters adds black timber extension to a cabin on Australia’s Sunshine Coast
Postmodern architecture: Vulcania Centre Européen du Volcanisme by Hans Hollein
Mecanoo designs huge engineering campus for The University of Manchester
Jagged concrete canopy by Ron Shenkin shelters mourners at a cemetery in Israel
Rafael Viñoly reveals plans for the “largest green roof in the world” in Silicon Valley
OSA submerges concrete home in a hill above Italy’s San Giuliano lake
Craggy concrete walls surround South Korean sculpture park by Archium
Nic Owen Architects updates ornate Melbourne terrace with ribbed steel extension
Concrete holiday homes by Adamo-Faiden occupy Uruguay’s coastal woodland
