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
Kaan Architecten adds study centre to a hospital part-designed by Jean Prouvé
Parisian nursery by Samuel Delmas consists of a pile of irregularly stacked boxes
Blackened timber extension by Fraher Architects provides a new kitchen for a keen cook
Sculp IT adds “world’s largest pivoting window” to an Antwerp townhouse
Charles Correa’s crystalline Islamic centre joins the Aga Khan Museum in a Toronto park
Studio Inches raises the roof of a Swiss home to create a lofty living space
Satoru Hirota Architects creates a “floating” home and gallery for an embroidery artist
Triangle School by Nameless Architecture has a three-sided courtyard at its centre
Paüls Doctor Surgery by Vora is a two-storey structure that hides its base below road level
Curving wooden wall fronts Ruukki Health Clinic in Finland by Alt Arkkitehdit
Francisco Mangado expands a Spanish museum by adding a new building behind a historic facade
Concrete adds retractable stairs and gymnast’s hoops to Amsterdam hotel suite
Asphalt-clad roof pods by Leth & Gori create new rooms on top of a Danish bungalow
Villa Altona by The Common Office fits around the trees of a Swedish woodland hill
MM++ Architects replaces the old walls of a Vietnam house with red bricks and pivoting glass
Inflatable dome on the banks of the River Thames is filled with aromatic fog
A Room with a View by MeesVisser is an Amsterdam home overlooking the IJ river
Act_Romegialli completes underground swimming pool in the grounds of an Italian home
Cross-shaped artist’s studio by Arquitecturia frames the base of an old ash tree
Playhouse on stilts by Sharon Davis features a slide, a climbing frame and a lookout point
Hassell and Draisci Studio create “London’s first sleeperie” to encourage daytime naps
Paleontology centre inside a quarry exhibits the bones of a prehistoric reptile
