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
Page\Park appointed to restore fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art
Blackened timber reading room extends a coastal home in northern France
Japanese house hides a balcony and terrace behind tiered walls
Office with a sawtooth roof pays homage to a Dutch mill by Gerrit Rietveld
Thomas Kroeger creates a holiday home inside an old German cowshed
Jonathan Dunn converts Victorian school house into cinema for an English town
Translucent and foiled glass fronts German grammar school extension
Kengo Kuma wins bid to design station for new Paris Metro line
Tham & Videgård designs wooden residential towers for Stockholm waterfront
Icelandic designer creates floatation caps and armbands for bathing in geothermal water
Seoul house becomes museum highlighting the plight of second world war “comfort women”
Reykjavik designers convert marine litter into playground equipment and homeware
Turato Architects raises Gumno House above the forest canopy of a Croatian island
Crooked concrete wall divides Zurich building by Christian Kerez into semi-detached homes
Penda creates landscape of purple pillars for audio-visual installation in a Chinese park
Patkau Architects designs chalet with steep angled roof beside a Whistler ski slope
Pine-clad sauna by Murman Arkitekter sits on the Stockholm archipelago
Henning Larsen reveals designs for new mosque in Copenhagen
Michael Kühnlein builds a timber barn for his herd of pygmy goats
Arnau Vergés builds concrete outbuilding for 17th-century Spanish farmhouse
Haptic adds a pair of extensions to a Victorian home in west London
Montreal home updated with corrugated metal cladding and a vibrant staircase
