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
Pitsou Kedem’s House of Parties combines family life with entertaining
Carl Trenfield adds perforated timber around the rooms and stairs of a London home
Louise Nettleton converts Sydney driveway into a comic-themed cafe
Troels Flensted uses flecked resin surfaces as tabletops
Skewed concrete chapel by EMC Arquitectura balances over a mountainside in El Salvador
Menu’s homeware collection avoids “anything crazy coloured or hyper trendy”
Aberrant’s styrofoam ceiling installation celebrates wasting time at work
Laddered metal fins angle from the facade of Cambridgeshire laboratory by Abell Nepp
Slabs of corduroy-textured concrete encase a Spanish home by Muka Arquitectura
A tube of striped orange wood encloses Max Pritchard’s treetop studio
Andrew Maynard adds greenhouse-like extension to a Melbourne home – but leaves it unfinished
Dark Australian timber lines Aesop Melbourne store by Kerstin Thompson Architects
Tense Architecture Network completes a “frugal” concrete home in a Greek olive grove
Fala Atelier guts Lisbon apartment to create bright open-plan home
Thatched office for Amsterdam’s canal cleaners is “the biggest ark in the Netherlands”
Kristina Dam designs pale oak furniture to incorporate plants
Ferm Living adds graphic textiles and rubber coated vessels to homeware collection
Mono-Light by OS & OOS twists and bends into different configurations
H Arquitectes inserts courtyard home between two existing Spanish houses
LGA creates wood and cement home for a curator and her art collection
Home of Charles Dickens illustrator converted by Sevil Peach into an artist’s studio
FCC Arquitectura slots family home within stone walls of dilapidated farmhouse
