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
Canadian Freezeway could become world’s first curb-side skating lane
Ukraine house by Sergey Makhno combines a staircase with a two-storey-high bookcase
Over 70 designs unveiled for another new bridge across London’s River Thames
Folding shutters create varying levels of privacy for Porto townhouse
Red wood corridor forms entrance to concrete home in Brazil by Studio Guilherme Torres
SO-IL and FREAKS to redesign glass museum on French-German border
Studio Zero85’s hilltop house and studio for an artist is covered in ridged terracotta tiles
Grzywinski+Pons pairs industrial fixtures with pastel tones for Urban Villa hotel lobby
Rue Space’s Casa #20 features a four-tiered facade of translucent glass
Carl Hansen & Søn updates Hans J Wegner’s reversible tray table with smoked oak surfaces
Tokyo rice shop by Schemata Architects is filled with boxy plywood fittings
Zalewski Architecture imagines spiral walkway strung between high-rise buildings
Stone canopy by a21studio forms monastic pagoda in a Vietnam park
Glazed pavilions form a community centre in the grounds of an old Flemish manse
Bernd Riegger’s see-through timber cabin provides shelter for a forest kindergarten
Chevron-patterned glass fronts Tokyo handbag store by Hiroshi Nakamura
Fire devastates Dubai’s 336-metre Torch skyscraper
Aisaka Architects adds red basket-weave facade to Tokyo office block
Gian Salis’ House on a Slope steps down a hillside in the Rhine Valley
Woodland home by Hiroshi Nakamura designed to resemble a cluster of timber tepees
Yusuke Seki showcases fragile hemp textiles across banks of metal rods
Ateliers O-S adds golden metal walls to cultural centre beside a French cemetery
