For projects ranging from a half-acre to thousands of acres and spanning urban to rural sites, Castle Bay has earned a reputation as visionaries and problem solvers who stay true to the firm’s founding mission to deliver on a multifaceted, big-picture design approach which translates the client’s vision into a responsible, practical, and achievable development strategy in both the public and private sectors across the state.
Expertise
Passionate in our craft, our expertise touches every aspect of purposeful design, from concept to reality, as we dovetail visionary ideas into great experiences and shape places where people thrive.
About Our Firm
We are an award-winning design consulting firm based in St. Augustine, Florida, with a passion for creating dynamic outdoor environments.
Our Services
Land Planning
With years of experience and expertise in the development industry, market trends, and local permitting and zoning requirements, Castle Bay works with clients across Florida on a wide array of project types to procure entitlements for residential, commercial, and institutional projects.
Whether it be a 5,000-acre, large-scale master-planned community or a single-use commercial site plan, we aim to make every acre count, establishing a roadmap that guides practical yet creative design solutions that are critical to uncovering a property’s true potential.
Castle Bay Design Studio begins every project with a dynamic discovery process, regardless of scale or complexity. We will listen, digest, and reflect on the client’s vision as we set a bold course informed by market insights, budgetary parameters, and specific opportunities and constraints each property offers.
Landscape Architecture
Our Landscape Architecture focus specializes in creating unique outdoor spaces that pair environmental stewardship with highly functional and aesthetic design strategies. Over the years, Castle Bay Design Studio’s calling card has become our unique ability to marry practicality with high-performance creativity.
Our work provides a clear framework that considers a site’s character, opportunities and constraints, marketability, and sustainability, as well as long-term performance and durability, while establishing a foundation for memorable experiences through purposeful placemaking and thoughtful design.
Simply put, we craft places for people to enjoy, taking pride in our ability to be true partners with our clients throughout the design process.
Urban Design
Our urban design services focus on developing vibrant urban spaces that are resilient and responsive to the changing needs of the communities they serve. We specialize in connecting people to their places through thoughtful design that emphasizes beauty, functionality, and sustainability.
Focusing on bringing a sense of social, cultural, historical, and economic vibrancy to city forms with an engaging visual aesthetic that fuses the many strands of placemaking together, Castle Bay Design Studio utilizes our specialized skill set to address the challenges and opportunities presented by urban living and mixed-use communities.
We take pride in our role alongside the communities in which we serve as stewards of the built environment and look to activate the character of a place by embracing its story and designing around it, creating spaces where people feel inspired to gather, play, work, and grow together.
