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
Timber summer house by Johan Sundberg expresses “Scandinavian architectural DNA”
French village library by Studio 02 Architectes presents a gridded facade of wood and glass
Naturehumaine add maple and steel staircase to 1960s house
Naoya Matsumoto Design uses crumpled paper to create grotto-like bar in Osaka
Rural Slovenian cottage by Dekleva Gregorič has walls of stone set into concrete
Olafur Eliasson’s immersive light installations inhabit Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton
Alventosa Morell slots a four-storey house between two blocks in Barcelona
Studio Puisto’s Dream Hotel extends a popular hostel in a former warehouse
The Art of Building photography competition shortlist announced
Hiroyuki Ito completes Tokyo housing block with staggered concrete silhouette
Wooden logs form the concave facades of Studio Gang’s Michigan college building
Jochen Specht envelops a 1960s house in a new timber and concrete facade
House by Double Negatives Architecture adapted to suit a difficult woodland site
Poulsom Middlehurst adds copper-clad extension to east London attic flat
Animal bones adorn the walls of Hueso Restaurant in Mexico
Sinato raises an apartment ceiling to squeeze in an extra floor
Mobile egg-shaped beach huts installed along a South Korean shoreline
Spiral stairs puncture hilly floors inside Takeshi Hosaka’s House in Byobugaura
Jägnefält Milton’s Forest Pavilion tests new Swedish building law
Shopify offices by MSDS Studio feature meeting rooms designed to look like shipping containers
Kilo pitches giant camel-hair tent outside Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris
James Corner Field Operations to replace San Francisco highway with public park
