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
Fire safety test shows Grenfell Tower’s cladding system was “an absolute failure”
Plans put on hold for “deeply offensive” Iron Ring sculpture at Wales’ Flint Castle
Whale skeleton suspended over information kiosk and bar in revamped Natural History Museum foyer
V&A exhibition charts the rise and fall of humble plywood
Sadiq Khan appoints David Adjaye, Alison Brooks and Sadie Morgan as design advocates for London
“Brexit is an attempt to get out of European regulation. It’s a crisis,” says David Chipperfield
Royal Academy announces new “permanent home” for architecture as part of Chipperfield renovation
Zaha Hadid Architects unveils new visuals for “stacked vases” hotel tower in Melbourne
Grenfell Tower disaster exposes UK’s “dangerous, ugly, cruel and uncaring” approach to social housing, say architects
CF Møller appointed on Robin Hood Gardens replacement scheme
60 UK towers fail fire safety checks following Grenfell tragedy
Cladding stripped from residential towers across UK in wake of Grenfell Tower fire
Cooke Fawcett’s rooftop observatory gives views of London’s skyline from above a Peckham car park
Christ & Gantenbein’s concrete extension to National Museum Zurich photographed by Rory Gardiner
BIG creates subterranean museum by carving channels into dune by Nazi bunker
World Interior of the Year 2017 shortlist announced
Munarq Arquitectes uses sandstone, cork, ceramic bricks and wicker to build solar-powered winery in Majorca
Mecanoo installs golden pavilion with scooped roofline on 17th-century Dutch estate
Kodasema launches tiny prefab home for £150k in UK
Tadao Ando to convert Paris stock exchange into art gallery
AL_A completes tile-covered entrance and subterranean gallery for London’s V&A museum
John Outram’s “Temple of Storms” pumping station heritage listed as one of UK’s finest postmodern buildings
