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Any day of the week, you step past a Barber McMurry building.

Whether one of our legacy designs or a more recent project, Barber McMurry projects have defined East Tennessee for a century. You may live in the JFG Building, attend Church Street United Methodist, or be a Fulton High grad. You may have visited a doctor at Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital or cheered on the Smokies at Covenant Health Park.

Our work is creative, impactful, and enduring.

Being rooted in place teaches us to be in tune with our community — its voices, its culture, its land. Those roots shape our craft. Every project is tied to this place.

We design Here.

fireworks at baseball stadium.

Named the 2025 Ballpark of the Year, Covenant Health Park is home to the AA Tennessee Smokies and One Knoxville SC. The stadium is enveloped by mixed-use and residential development that creates meaningful pedestrian connections as well as visual continuity between the Old City and East Knoxville.

A 360-degree concourse is possible thanks to a pedestrian bridge crossing First Creek. The design utilizes exposed cross-laminated timber in its roofing system, spanning 36,500 square feet — and saving 434 metric tons of carbon dioxide in what would otherwise have required steel construction.

plaza with people eating at picnic tables.

21st Street Plaza

rendering of a brick building with a pool and a sign that says

5Central

building with green roof at sunset.

Agriculture & Natural Resources Building

laboratory with orange walls.

AMS Corporation

urban office building at night.

Barber McMurry - Arnstein

$white and red brick building with people walking.$

Bill Haslam Center for Math & Science

building with metal panels at sunset.

Blount Cancer Center

Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

lounge area with orange walls and ceiling baffles.

Center for Precision Health

a wooden wall with a sign that says

CGI Federal

rendering of eight-story brick building.

Charles & Julie Wharton Chemistry Building

children in a colorful play room.

Child Development Lab

stucco building with slate roof.

Cherokee Country Club Poolhouse

chapel with blue benches and colored glass.

Children's Hospital Chapel

chiller plant with visible equipment through the windows.

Children's Hospital Chiller

hospital emergency department with lights on at dusk.

Children's Hospital Emergency Department

multi-story tower at children's hospital with blue metal panels.

Children's Hospital South Tower

a brick and stone building lit at dusk.

Cleveland State Health & Science Center

a small medical office building with wood siding at dusk.

Contemporary Women's Health

an office building with wide glass windows and a canopy.

Covenant Health Corporate Office

fireworks at baseball stadium.

Covenant Health Park

nine-story building with large outdoor plaza.

The Delaney

lounge with blue bench seats and custom artwork on louver panels.

Discovery Innovation & Simulation Center

a woman and child in a lobby.

Dollywood Family Lounge

exterior of brick building with a tree in the foreground.

Drama & Ted Russell Center

small orthodontics office with board-formed concrete walls.

Epic Orthodontics

pastel colored multifamily houses.

Five Points

aerial image of park and mountains beyond.

French Broad Veterans Memorial Park

three-story medical office building with tall windows.

Gastrointestinal Associates

women play in a bowling alley with orange benches.

Gatlinburg Community Center

tan and gold brick school building.

Hardin Valley Middle School

car wash exterior at night.

Harper Auto Wash

hospital emergency department entrance at night.

Haslam Family Center for Emergency & Trauma

a nine-story hospital tower with an ambulance in front.

Heart Hospital

men work at a conference table.

HF Capital

a gray house overlooks a lake.

Hicks Residence

brick and copper building at dusk.

Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing

a four-story brick and stacked-stone library at dusk.

King Family Library

rendering of one story forensic center.

Knox County Regional Forensic Center

Knoxville Public Works Complex

brick building with large window at sunset.

Knox Regional Health Science Education Center

a rendering of a museum with dinosaur skeletons displayed outside.

Knoxville Science Museum

a woman walks through a lobby.

Knoxville Spine Surgery

a temporary triangular metal structure outside an urban park.

LEAN-2

a residential building with white panel siding.

Liberty Place Veteran Housing

fans cheer at baseball stadium.

Lindsey Nelson Stadium

rendering of residential building with men on bicycles.

MLK Avenue Development

rendering of Jacob Building renovated for the Muse.

Muse - Jacob Building

music classroom building with lights on in the windows.

Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

Northgate Development

modern home with wood siding and lit windows at dusk.

Office & Golf Cart Garage for Private Residence

a distillery with ferris wheel in the background.

Ole Smoky Distillery

a blue and white lobby.

Pain Consultants of East Tennessee

workroom with custom pegboard and white boards.

PetSafe Engineering Design Gym

people and dogs inside an office.

PetSafe Idea Lab

a blue wall says

PetSafe Mezzanine

building with heavy timber trusses.

Rocky Top Sports World

brick building with visible skylights at night.

Ruth & Steve West Workforce Development Center

rendering of six-story residential building.

Single Stair Housing Study

bank with metal siding and wood accents lit at dusk.

SmartBank Corporate Headquarters

students walks across a pedestrian bridge at sunset.

Student Union

medical office building with brick and metal panels.

St. Elizabeth Endoscopy Building

decorative frescos and murals in a church.

St. George Greek Orthodox Church

renovated high school entryway that says

South High Senior Living

conceptual rendering of modular residential building.

Sutherland Avenue Development

brick college manufacturing building at dusk.

TCAT Chattanooga Advanced Manufacturing Building

rendering of building with gray metal panel.

TCAT Harriman

rendering of building with green roof and mountains in background.

TCAT Knoxville

church with a tall wooden tower and cross.

Two Rivers Church

a white and brick building at dusk.

The Residences at Eastport

medical building with gray metal panel.

University Orthopaedic Institute

a four-story medical building with lit windows at dusk.

UT Medical Center - Cancer Institute

woman walks through an open office.

UT Tower

fish-themed decor in a patient waiting room.

Volunteer Pediatric Dentistry

a brick parking garage lit at night.

Welcome Center & Parking Garage

craftsman-style homes are lit at night.

ZEBRA Homes