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
Concrete and timber retirement house sits amongst a Dutch orchard
Kois Associated Architects furnishes Athens jewellery shop with metal “forest” and smoke
Bamboo-framed canopy shades Bangladesh community centre by Schilder Scholte
Copenhagen dance hall converted into office for Danish law society
Willy Wonka-inspired machine propels popcorn through a curved glass tube
Givenchy store in Seoul has an undulating moulded-metal facade
Fluted brick walls frame scalloped views of the sky above Thai hotel by Onion
Swedish holiday home by Murman Arkitekter pretends to mirror a juniper grove
Featherstone Young replaces board-game factory with apartments and artists’ studios
West Architecture guts a Georgian townhouse and rebuilds with industrial fittings
Intertwining staircases spiral around the glazed core of Hiroshi Nakamura’s Ribbon Chapel
Perforated brick house by Tropical Space is based on termites’ nests
Studio Fuksas to design Australia Forum convention centre in Canberra
Blackened-timber boathouse completed by Weiss Architecture on a Canadian island
Staircases trace a path across the glazed facade of Intecs office block in Rome
Old French barn converted into printmaker’s studio by Modal Architecture
NAAD lines a century-old Japanese house with exposed plywood
SO-IL’s Storefront gallery installation vandalised with “poor quality” graffiti
Supermachine Studio adds labyrinthine staircase to seaside park in Thailand
Curving walls eclipse glazed facade of park-side house in Japan by Tsuyoshi Kawata
Stilted woodland cabin by ALT Architekti boasts a spiralling metal staircase
Mountain lodge by Reiulf Ramstad Architects has a V-shaped footprint that follows the terrain
