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
Wooden cabin by Andre Tchelistcheff Architects houses a sauna in the Hudson Valley
Famous buildings become abstract blocks of colour in Federico Babina’s Archishape series
Woodland greenhouse by Divooe Zein Architects provides shelter for flora and fauna
Light-filled classrooms surround a courtyard garden at DS Nursery in Japan
Wooden trusses support new mezzanines inside remodelled stone building by Corpo Atelier
Curving walls create arched avenue through wedding planning venue by Ryo Matsui Architects
Bertrand Lavier’s “unruly mass” of hoses creates a fountain outside the Serpentine Sackler Gallery
TallerDE2 Architects uses engineered wood to create adaptable Madrid apartment
Yellow accents brighten the stacked white volumes of Pino Street House by Oscar Gutiérrez
EM2N converts century-old Swiss farm into housing and office complex
Lisbon tile trader Cortiço & Netos uses vintage stock to pattern shop walls
Translucent glass concert hall designed by Barozzi Veiga with a jagged roofline
Ladders lead to capsule-sized bedrooms in Koyasan Guesthouse by Alphaville
Turenscape transforms “lifeless ditch” into wetland park with meandering causeways
Crescent-shaped pool skirts cylindrical house by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Studio OxL converts a carpenter’s workshop into a live-in garage
Cerise walls frame rooftop garden of housing block by Pietri Architectes
Architects arrange French skatepark around an irregular maroon bowl
Plywood staircase by Buj+Colón Arquitectos integrates shelves and cupboards for a small flat
Zminkowska De Boise inserts combined bookshelf-staircase into London flat
Solar-powered housing by Louise Braverman accommodates medical staff in an African village
David Ben-Gurion’s former home renovated by Pitsou Kedem Architects
