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
John Puttick Associates wins competition for £13 million Preston Bus Station overhaul
Shed-like house extensions by MW Architects maximise views into a verdant garden
Work starts on purpose-built shelter for victims of domestic abuse in Israel
London extension by Bureau de Change Architects zigzags like a row of gabled houses
NEXT Architects uses terracotta and granite for housing complex on China’s Min River
Arched openings cut through walls of Takushu Arai’s steel-plated house in Yokohama
Slate-clad Fontanile Pool frames views of the Italian countryside from the garden of an old villa
Postmodern architecture: San Cataldo Cemetery by Aldo Rossi
Pre-rusted metal panels clad Kirk’s Fitzgibbon Community Centre in Brisbane
YH2 reinterprets the Canadian log cabin for lakeside housing development in Quebec
David Adjaye unveils designs for children’s cancer treatment centre in Rwanda
Yusuke Seki uses 25,000 pieces of crockery to raise the floor of a ceramics shop
DCPP Arquitectos fits Mexico City residence around a network of courtyard gardens
Victor Gubbins pays tribute to Le Corbusier with concrete beach house on the Chilean coast
Volcanic stone structures pump fresh water from the sea surrounding a South Korean island
UUfie updates facade of Shanghai boutique with pixellated grid of glowing glass
Atelier Central Arquitectos adds concrete entrance and golden walkways to Lisbon school
Concave walls give a scalloped outline to mixed-use block by Iroje KHM Architects
“World’s longest and tallest tunnel slide” to wrap Anish Kapoor sculpture in London’s Olympic park
Linehouse installs diagonal partitions and mirrored panels in a Shanghai boutique
Vietnam spa by MIA Design Studio features latticed walls, hanging gardens and pools of water
Roots trail from house suspended above a construction site by Leandro Erlich
