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
Black house by Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher is raised above a bathing lake
Sliding wooden partitions divide Nook Architects’ latest Barcelona apartment
Badajoz Fine Arts Museum extensions feature speckled walls and bevelled edges
Eurostar unveils train design by Pininfarina to celebrate 20th anniversary
Grimshaw’s Fulton Center welcomes first New York subway commuters
Live-in gallery and studio by Flat House hides utility rooms in a central cylinder
Matali Crasset presents woven vessels in collaboration with Zimbabwean weavers
Takeru Shoji Architects tops a timber-clad Japanese house with a “big hat”
Iranzo, Rittler and Kesting create cocoon-like “cloud” installation
Selencky Parsons designs glass and white concrete house in Oxfordshire
NORD Architects unveils designs for Marine Educational Centre in Malmö
Yoshio Ohno’s black timber house straddles a concrete escarpment in Hiroshima
House by Philip Stejskal can be “locked down” with shutters that blend into the facade
TAKA completes brick and concrete pavilion for a Dublin cricket club
London house extension by Cousins and Cousins has a window wrapping its corner
Offshore torpedo base in Poland to be transformed by MFRMGR into a water sports hub
Matsuyama Architects builds concrete house on inclining site in Japanese housing estate
Peter Haimerl’s Bavarian concert hall has a rough stone exterior and a raw concrete interior
Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos add curving white staircase to a remodelled Portuguese apartment
Furumori Koichi adds timber latticework to a concrete Japanese temple extension
Sliding chipboard units create multifunctional space in Madrid apartment
Adrian Elizalde renovates 1930s tiled apartment in Barcelona
