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
LAND Arquitectos rebuilds school devastated by Chilean earthquake
Red mirrored lattice encloses South Korean office block by Wise Architecture
Schemata Architects converts Tokyo factory into artist’s studio with an indoor garden
Greenery and observation decks top hillside villa by António Costa Lima
MPGMB’s homeware includes terracotta cacti pots based on desert forms
Faceted concrete T-shape facade fronts courtyard house in Santa Fe
House and art studio by Alphaville features a diamond-shaped plan and a pointed roof
Jan Kaplický’s futuristic drawings go on show at London’s Architectural Association
Designers convert lifeguard towers into winter pavilions for Toronto’s frozen beaches
Ernesto Pereira updates a coastal Portuguese home with timber-clad cutaways
Warming Huts provide shelter for ice-skaters on Winnipeg’s frozen river
Construction starts on O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Budapest university redesign
Eva Jiřičná, Richard Meier and John Pawson recruited for village-like development near Prague
Aesop’s first shop in Seoul features recycled pine and blackened-steel fittings
Micro house by Architekturbüro Scheder is raised off the ground on stilts
Hewn sandstone walls and an overhanging roof enclose a hillside home in Nairobi
Studio Inches renovates Alpine house to create a private gallery
Black glass box forms a reflective extension to a Victorian townhouse in Dublin
Takanobu Kishimoto’s Platform is a home built around a train carriage
Mihaly Slocombe extends vineyard home in Australia with wooden nursery
30,000 red shoelaces hang from the ceiling of Melbourne’s Camper store
Pitágoras Arquitectos adds red timber wing to stone farmhouse in rural Portugal
