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
First Yo! Home scheme to compact houses into small apartments
Conceptual home for couples designed to split into two halves after divorce
Antonia Reif updates Dutch townhouse with herringbone parquet and chevron-patterned tiles
Green cross divides workspace from waiting room in denture clinic by Adam Wiercinski
Noah’s Ark theme park opens in Kentucky as flash floods hit the US
Albanian photography museum by Casanova + Hernandez features gridded glass walls
Dune-shaped car park by Royal HaskoningDHV doubles as a flood defence
SCAU adds undulating ring-shaped roof to Marseille football stadium
Jungle House by Studio MK27 features a rooftop infinity pool with views over a Brazilian rainforest
Murman Arkitekter completes a Swedish villa that fans out in all directions
Avanto Architects builds coastal sauna in Helsinki with a faceted timber “cloak”
Modelia Days apartment block in Tokyo features concrete walls and steel box windows
Cross-shaped windows allow light to filter into Lebanese church by Maroun Lahoud
Huge timber steps form bridge built by students across a river in rural China
Finger-like blocks create secluded “micro-spaces” for Madrid residence by Abiboo Architecture
Z4Z4 commissions sci-fi photoshoot for half-sunken house in Madrid
Wedge-shaped reading and sleeping nooks feature in Christopher Polly’s Sydney extension
Freiluft uses concrete “tree” to form rooms within Swiss barn conversion
Ciaran Scannell proposes “fantastical world” in London’s HS2 railway tunnels
Studio Seilern hides secret library at the heart of converted English barn
Dorte Mandrup unveils plans for tent-like climate research centre in Greenland
London architects create pop-up art studio to highlight the city’s unaffordable rents
