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
Barbosa & Guimarães’ Porto marina buildings are supported by curving arcs of steel
Concertina shutters shade the windows of Naud & Poux’s Paris retirement home
Naturehumaine includes ribbon-like staircase in refurbished Montreal residence
KiBiSi launches cargo bike for urban commuters
Ogawa Sekkei transforms an old house into a landscape architecture studio with a rockery
Softly contoured interiors lend cave-like aesthetic to lakeside cabin
Angled fins flank the windows of KINO Architects’ Tokyo apartment block
Yuichi Yoshida reorganises Tokyo apartment to create temporary accommodation
Gus Wüstemann uses chipboard-textured concrete for Zurich apartment block
Casos de Casas’ plastic-clad house designed to adapt to all the Spanish seasons
Per Kristian Nygård crams a grassy valley into an Oslo gallery
RCA graduate Olivia Wright to convert vandalised bottle kilns into pottery preservation centre
Studio Nomad’s mirror installation reflects fragments of forest at a Hungarian music festival
Sand dune-inspired kindergarten completed by Dorte Mandrup beside a Swedish beach
Casa Rosto do Cão by M-Arquitectos is fronted by four white blocks
Sarah Van Peteghem showcases local designers inside Berlin apartment
Red-brick boiler room converted into tiny guesthouse by Azevedo Design
Adept creates timber-lined music rooms that each suit different instruments
Reiulf Ramstad completes wooden church with a grand spire beside a Norwegian fjord
Five cities awarded UNESCO City of Design status
Five sprawling volumes make up Barcelona home by RTA-Office
Amin Taha Architects peels back layers of plasterboard to create open-plan offices
