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
Bethan Laura Wood creates installation of oversized canapés for lettuce-shaped plates
Geneva students make ink from salamanders and electricity from dog poo for Milan show
Softroom converts thatched-roof pub into contemporary restaurant and cookery school
Mirrors emphasise the cantilever of Robert Konieczny’s Living-Garden House
Sculptural staircase connects two mosaic floors in an old fisherman’s cottage in Sicily
Schemata Architects inserts coffee shop and roastery into a Tokyo warehouse
Aketuri Architektai clads woodland house in Lithuania with shale tiles
Scottish holiday home by WT Architecture masquerades as an old stone mill
Claridge Architects inserts timber-clad house behind north London mansion block
Neri&Hu’s design for a Shanghai punch bar references the city’s old alleyways
Concrete and glass house completed by Arrhov Frick in a Swedish woodland clearing
Remodelled London house extension reveals the outline of its predecessor
Cumulus Studio converts an Art Deco pump house into a hotel on a Tasmanian lake
Korean island visitor centre by OUJAE Architects features a remodelled schoolhouse
Half & Half House in Tokyo has a curving wall to allow pedestrians to cut the corner
Juri Troy Architects creates 37-metre-long house and studio in the Rhine Valley
Protruding brickwork gives a ribbed facade to Lezze’s House VR in Belgium
Imbue Design completes a rusty steel dwelling in the Utah desert
Terraced landscaping surrounds concrete and stone structure of Emre Arolat’s Sancaklar Mosque
Greenland’s first product designer triggers “explosion of new designers” in her homeland
Mt Martha Beach House by Wolveridge Architects is clad in a mixture of weather-resilient materials
Fumihiko Sano creates ritualistic spaces for a members-only gift wrapping service
