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
Hiroki Tominaga Atelier completes Japanese retirement home featuring a huge dormer window
Joanne Chen designs factory for London artisans based on the teachings of William Morris
V&A features Sam Jacob’s replica refugee shelter in copying exhibition at Venice Biennale
Gabinete de Arquitectura presents latticed brick arch as model for low-cost construction
Venice Biennale’s first Baltic States Pavilion investigates post-Soviet infrastructure
Kunlé Adeyemi docks Makoko Floating School at the Venice Biennale
Norman Foster reveals vaulted Droneport prototype at Venice Architecture Biennale
Christian Kerez creates cavernous cloud to offer “a pure encounter with architecture”
VR goggles combined with hand-held controllers offers architects “a whole new way of designing”
Masatoshi Hirai reconfigures Tokyo flat to create a wholly shared family living space
Pastel blue tiles front gabled extension to a Melbourne house by Dan Gayfer Design
Stacked beams form Jenga-like workspace inside converted barn in Belgium
Samuel Gonçalves unveils modular housing based on concrete sewage pipes
Czech and Slovak Pavilion explores whether Soviet-era architecture is worth saving
Alejandro Aravena uses over 90 tonnes of recycled waste for entrance rooms of Venice Biennale 2016
Serbian Pavilion features bright blue interior modelled on a ship’s hull
Max Lamb’s rubberised furniture provides seating for migration-focused Albanian Pavilion
Venice Biennale awards Golden Lions to Spanish Pavilion and Gabinete de Arquitectura
Australian Pavilion features swimming pool as “space for healing racial and cultural division”
Graves reached using GPS proposed for bushland cemetery near Sydney
Stone-covered blocks make up staggered Spanish residence by OOIIO Architecture
Nizio Design commemorates the Holocaust with angular weathering-steel museum
