Profile

JBDesign is a private design practice based in the South West of England UK.

JBDesign undertakes work in the residential, commercial and cultural arenas. JBDesign also undertakes commissions for landscaping, garden design and sculpture projects.

The purpose of JBDesign is to create delight in spaces and marvelous places. We do this with a deeply intuitive understanding of how spaces and buildings are used, seen, sustained and enjoyed. We think it is critical to listen to and fully comprehend the client and end user, the brief and the context. Based on this learning we then experiment, develop and transform the subject. We unlock potential and add inestimable value to the project; not only financially but also spiritually.

Jimmy Barnett is the principal and has 25 years of professional practical experience in the field during 30 years of immersion in building design. Jimmy has a wide range of experience of different building types, sectors and scales across the UK, Africa and Australia. Jimmy is not only happy designing in the studio but also has hands-on building and management experiences not normally found in other building designers.  Jimmy has designed, managed and helped construct a winery redevelopment in Australia and fully remodeled his own homes in London and in Devon.

In addition to work in the residential sector Jimmy has had 7 years experience in the hospitality, commercial and transport design sectors having worked in large commercial practices in the UK and Australia. This experience includes major design and construction projects; notably a £15m new office and mixed use development in Gracechurch Street (2001) in the City of London as well as a £20m new hotel tower in Moscow (2002).

JBDesign has experience in the education sector and with Kingsley School; a private school in Bideford North Devon, JB designed a new type of new build teaching environment called The Earth Building as part of the new curriculum taught in ‘The Earth Centre’. JBDesign has also designed two types of speculative boarding schools for the Mo Farah Foundation based in Somaliland and a forest school teaching tree house for a school in Oxfordshire

Jimmy Barnett has both a Master of Arts (MA hons) in Architectural Design and a Bachelor of Architecture Diploma (BArch) from the University of Edinburgh.