Joe Tabet is an innovative visionary architect wearing different hats, with over 20 years of professional experience in the worldwide architecture and construction industry. Joe founded JT+Partners in 2015, starting with a handful of staff in a 100sqm office in Business Bay, Dubai. The company became an “overnight success,” earning recognition as an acclaimed international multidisciplinary consultant with impressive projects located in global destinations.
In the span of seven years, despite economic slumps and pandemic challenges, Joe persevered, formulated a vision/mission, planned everything around the future—from business strategy to financial situation—and started exploring work in different geographies and other sectors like healthcare. Subsequently, JT+Partners grew to more than twice its original size. His initial staff grew to more than 125, the Dubai headquarters extended to 1000sqm, and the company moved into Abu Dhabi and Beirut.
He creates buildings and communities that transcend design and encompass social and environmental issues. Joe, JT+Partners, and its projects received awards and recognitions from Cityscape, MEA, Arabian Property, UAE Business Awards, and UAP Dubai. Recent completed projects include hotels in RAK, Seychelles, and Egypt. Ongoing and upcoming projects include residential towers and villas, hotels, resorts, golf courses, waterparks, and hospitals in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, RAK, Sharjah, Egypt, Greece, and KSA.
Always alert to the latest trends and with eyes toward the future, he pushes his staff to look at innovation, the Internet of Things, digital twin, 3D printing, and modular construction, and invests in the newest multimedia technology and up-to-date state-of-the-art tools.
Joe took advantage of the region’s multi-skilled resources, hiring people from multiple cultural backgrounds, including over 15 different nations with diverse professional expertise. Thus, JT+Partners has an energetic, collaborative, and creative team of innovative individuals with their fingers on the pulse of global architecture and construction, from cutting-edge technologies and trends to oldest traditions, producing bespoke designs that reflect diversity in culture, experience, and understanding.
Joe is a firm believer in applying innovation at different levels: design, business, client approach, project approach, and support team. He uses “unconventional” management strategies for JT+Partners to sustain its reputation as a world-renowned consultant, delivering iconic, environmental, and socially sustainable projects worldwide while retaining and expanding his clientele and contacts. A talented, insightful, and creative architect, he has the gift of being able to understand, and interpret local cultural requirements/aspirations, and reflect all these into cost-effective building design solutions.
Proactive in his commitments to CSR, Joe is heavily involved in raising awareness of sociable/sustainable communities, giving his team good health/financial benefits, fostering future generations, conducting business ethically/fairly, and supporting worthy causes. Outside of the practice, he attends international industry-related exhibits, actively participates in university lectures/panel discussions, and grants interviews to share his knowledge, experiences, and viewpoints.
Joe is an inspiration to designers and architects. He achieved success through his innovative ideas in design and management, creativity to think outside of the box, and being a flexible and adaptable visionary. To be ranked amongst the most powerful architects and influencers in the region is an honor for Joe.