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
Elsa Urquijo’s campus for a Spanish charity is made up of “serene” white buildings
Piet Hein Eek prints Rijksmuseum artworks onto flatpack stools
Reiulf Ramstad creates three glass-fronted cabins as Norwegian holiday home
Genesin Studio renovates Victorian shop in Adelaide for Aesop
Camarim Arquitectos pays homage to Lisbon’s decorative houses with a patterned-tile facade
Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk completes “labyrinth-like” concrete home in Norway
Studiomama pairs pale wood with marble for revamped 1720s loft in Stockholm
Concrete cabin by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos built in an Argentinian woodland
COBE’s Copenhagen kindergarten designed as a “village for children”
Archiproba transforms 1920s telecommunications building into offices in Moscow
ECDM Architectes extends Parisian apartments with wavy balconies
Norton Ellis extends Georgian basement flat with glass and brick “outhouses”
MFRMGR creates house-like cubicles with windows inside a Polish office
Charred-timber extension by A1 Architects transforms an old cottage into a home and studio
XML designs vitamin drinks shop for Amsterdam’s Red Light District
Johan Celsing’s red-brick crematorium follows the terrain of Asplund’s Woodland Cemetery
Nook Architects squeezes a second bedroom into a Barcelona apartment
Garden chapel by AZL Architects features semi-transparent walls and a butterfly roof
11+ designs USB-powered portable humidifier
i29 converts Amsterdam garage into a single-storey apartment
Atelier Data adds concrete volumes and internal courtyards to Algarve house
Arhitektura d.o.o. renovates cross-shaped attic in Slovenia into holiday home
