Scottsdale · Coronado Island
Where vision meets craftsmanship.
A design-build firm in the oldest sense — architect, builder, and developer at the same table. One team through the whole arc, from the first site walk to the day you move in.
How We Work
The entire arc, under one roof.
A luxury home typically passes through three firms: an architect to design it, a general contractor to build it, a consultant to navigate permits. Each handoff is a place where the client's vision gets reinterpreted — and, quietly, reduced.
We run the whole arc in-house. Creative design. Material selection. Feasibility analysis. Entitlement and permitting. Structural engineering. Construction. One team, one conversation, from the first site walk to the day you move in. The drawings you approve are the drawings we build from — and we've been the ones at city hall every step of the way.
What We Build
Two kinds of work.
One standard.
Custom homes
Ground-up residential, from the first site walk to move-in. One team through design, material selection, construction, and delivery — so the house you've pictured is the house you live in. Paradise Valley, North Scottsdale, Arcadia, Coronado.
Comprehensive remodels
Whole-home rebuilds, structural reconfigurations, and the historic-overlay and HOA work most firms turn down. The remodels where the design intent has to survive the drywall — and where the hardest projects reward the most disciplined teams.
Selected Works
Every project
earned its name.
Our Approach
Every client arrives with a vision they can describe but can't quite see. A kitchen that feels like somewhere they've been but never lived. A hallway lit a way they can't name. A room that holds the people they love the way holidays do, not Tuesdays. Our work begins there — in the fragments, the references, the half-thoughts — and moves steadily, without a handoff, until the house is drawn, costed, and ready to build.
That conversation requires both sides in the room. Design untested against the build becomes a wish list. Construction unguided by design intent becomes a compromise. We do both — as one team, at the same moment — which is why the drawings you approve are the drawings we build from, and the finishes you pictured are the finishes that land.
Every project bears our name. That is not a credit line; it is a commitment. No shortcuts. No hurried decisions. No concessions to schedule or margin we won't stand behind for a decade. Shortcuts don't save time — mistakes do, and mistakes live in walls long after the job is finished. We do not lift the pen off the canvas until the work is worth signing. It is the only standard we know how to hold.
Meet the team →“Luxury is not a finish. It is the absence of compromise.”Firas Haddad · Construction
On Cost
Luxury is a decision, not a price tag.
Clients don't feel the cost of every material we specified. They feel the ones we specified wrong. We value engineer the way designers think — ruthlessly on what won't show, never on what will. The long view over the fast close. The result is a home that reads as though no expense was spared, because every expense was chosen deliberately.
The Arcadia Signature
Not one piece of drywall is hung until the structure meets the Arcadia Standard.
When the structural work is complete — the frame up, the roof on — the principals arrive together. The family signs the beams. And the Arcadia Signature, a branding iron heated and pressed into a structural beam, is added as the record of a home that was built right.
Every home that bears the Arcadia Signature was built to a standard the principals personally stood behind.
Where We Build
Two markets. One standard.
Coronado · California
An island market governed by Navy easements, historic overlay, and HOA discipline — where the list of capable luxury builders is short and well-known. We operate here full-time, carrying the design-build capability most island GCs don't have.
Coronado practice →
Scottsdale · Arizona
Paradise Valley, Arcadia, DC Ranch, North Scottsdale. The region our principals have built in longer than most firms have existed. Architectural culture that rewards precision; a subcontractor network earned project by project; a developer's perspective on every build.
Scottsdale practice →Begin a Project
Tell us about your house.
Every project begins with a site walk and a conversation. No pricing in the first meeting. No pitch. A partner listens, looks at what you have, and tells you what's possible. Most first conversations take about forty-five minutes.
Start a conversationCoronado Island, CA · Scottsdale, AZ · arcadiausa.com