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
Japanese acupuncture clinic by id inc is lined with mint-green cabinets
Giant openings puncture Elemental’s “monolithic” concrete innovation centre
Jean Verville completes white clapboard house in suburban Montreal
One World Trade Center welcomes first occupants
Photography studio by FT Architects features corrugated plastic walls and a faceted roof
Gundry & Ducker’s bubble tea cafe features cork seats and stripy paintwork
“Workspaces are white, passages are black” at Post-‘s self-designed architecture studio
Filipe Pina + Maria Inês Costa add concrete extension to stone house in Portugal
Black glass facade mirrors scenery at south London home by Ian McChesney
Bent Architecture’s wooden extension screens a Melbourne home from neighbouring “McMansion”
London’s The Rom becomes first listed skatepark in Europe
Sarah Van Peteghem restyles Berlin apartment with woollen lamps and cables
Lipton Plant Architects adds pale-brick extension to north London home
3archlab’s concrete courtyard house is positioned against a cliff
Insert Studio completes house in Romania with two cut-away corners
Alice Spieser’s 3D-printed tap aims to make drinking from the faucet more dignified
The Corten House by DMOA architecten is surrounded by weathered steel fins
Overhanging roof forms a hood over Japanese house by Moca Architects
Numen/For Use creates inhabitable “corporeal” installation with sticky tape
New Barcelona Design Museum merges decorative art and design collections
CHROFI completes concrete and stone sheds for forestry workers
Marlies Schets’ reflective fabrics turn everyday accessories into cycling safety gear
