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
Matthew Lloyd builds decorative brick homes around a 19th-century London church
Bubble Wrap redesigned to create pop-less packaging material
Paulina Lenoir’s Excessively Long Shoes force wearers to slow their pace
White concrete pavilion by Materia Arquitectonica creates an outdoor events space for historic house
Josep Ferrando slots a skinny house between two existing properties in Spain
Paris housing blocks by Tectône Architectes are encased by timber louvres
Kengo Kuma replaces the walls of a Beijing tea house with a grid of translucent blocks
Ludescher and Lutz add a tasting hall to a winery in Austria’s Wachau region
Perforated shutters move mechanically to mask the facade of Archinauten’s House GT
Hiboux Architects elevates slatted timber garage above the pool of an Athens house
Glass elevator and steel bridge by Vaumm connect two neighbourhoods in a Spanish town
Daniel Fügenschuh adds white concrete loft to a 20th-century apartment block in Austria
Matt Gibson adds Modernist-inspired extension to a Victorian home in Melbourne
Shingle-clad house by Bates Masi Architects mimics Long Island potato barns
Glossy black pavilion in Dublin presents Ireland’s oil consumption
Larch-clad holiday home by De Zwarte Hond huddles behind the dunes on a Dutch island
House-shaped clinic designed by Hkl Studio to make elderly patients feel more at home
Fly Out House balances on a concrete wall to avoid overlooking a busy road
Hiroshi Nakamura’s showroom and home for a car dealer features warren-like interiors
Wilson Tang adds oak staircases and marble surfaces for Theresa St Residence renovation
Tables, benches and an ironing board unfurl from the walls of a Madrid apartment by Elii Architects
House B by Format Elf contains two floors within its large asymmetric roof
