LNZ

What LNZ does

LNZ, LLC is a private, for-profit design studio operating from Jersey City, New Jersey, with additional offices in Kirkland (Washington), and two Taipei (Taiwan) locations. Founded in 2015, the firm is registered as an LLC and reports 1-10 employees. Co-founded by How Zan (Design Director, RA/NCARB/LEED AP) and Wei-chia Lin (Lighting Design Director, LC/IES/LEED AP), the studio is built around a small principal team of eight named professionals, each holding multi-jurisdictional licensure, AIA affiliations, or LEED AP credentials, and collectively offering 25-45 years of design experience across architecture, interior design, lighting, and XR/VR/AR.

LNZ delivers four integrated core services — Architectural Design, Interior Design, Lighting Design, and VR/AR Solutions — serving high-net-worth residential, hospitality (boutique restaurants, wine bars, coffee shops, izakaya), commercial/office, and civic/educational segments. Revenue is generated primarily through bespoke, quote-based professional-services engagements (no publicly disclosed pricing), with customers spanning individual private residences in New York (Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Flushing), hospitality venues (Coffee Project NY, SAITO, Mi Garba, BONI, Mickey's Place), and large institutional commissions such as the Silver Towers (three 52-story Moscow residential towers), Tamanaco Conjunto (14-story office building in Caracas, Venezuela), the Bergen County 70-unit residential complex, and the 14-story Cheng-Xuan Dormitory at Taichung Girls' School in Taiwan. The firm also maintains an XR/VR/AR practice led by Harold Shin, with published consumer apps available on Google Play and the Apple App Store, and positions sustainable design and disaster-recovery work (2009 Red Cross post-Morakot Typhoon rebuilding) within its portfolio.

The go-to-market is direct, relationship-based enterprise field sales: LNZ engages private clients, developers, institutions, and governments via its portfolio website (lnz.design) and reference projects, and extends reach through collaborative partnerships with K+SPACING (Taipei), Design Determination (New York), and prior Red Cross work. All revenue is professional-services fees with no evidence of subscription, licensing, or productized software revenue at scale.

Name

LNZ

Legal name

LNZ, LLC

Website

https://lnz.design

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

LNZ is a private Jersey City-based multidisciplinary design studio (architecture, interior, lighting, and XR/VR/AR) co-founded in 2015 by How Zan and Wei-chia Lin, serving high-net-worth residential, hospitality, commercial, and civic clients across the US, Taiwan, Russia, and Venezuela.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural and Interior Design Services

NAICS

Interior Design Services (541410), Architectural Services (54131)

akta.pro primary industry

Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Digital Design Services (BPAHAKAK)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Interior design services
• Lighting design services
• VR AR visualization
• Sustainable architecture

Headquarters

HQ city

Jersey City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: Full-service architectural design for residential, commercial, hospitality, civic, and mixed-use projects including master planning, building design, and construction documentation.
2. Interior Design Services: High-end interior design services for residential and commercial spaces, including custom residential designs and boutique hospitality interiors.
3. Lighting Design Services: Specialized lighting design services for architectural projects with Wei-Chia Lin as Lighting Design Director.
4. XR/VR/AR Solutions: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality design solutions and app development for architectural visualization and interactive experiences.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

LNZ is an international multidisciplinary design studio providing architectural design, interior design, lighting design, and VR/AR visualization services for residential, hospitality, commercial, civic, and mixed-use projects. The studio delivers end-to-end design from conceptual storytelling and master planning through construction documentation, with offices in New York, Seattle, and Taipei serving clients across the U.S., Taiwan, Russia, and Venezuela.

Product overview

LNZ is an international design studio with offices in New York and Taipei, offering four integrated core services: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Lighting Design, and VR/AR Solutions. The studio specializes in progressive and creative design approaches across residential, hospitality, commercial, and civic sectors worldwide. Projects range from high-end residential interiors (T Residence, M Residence, H Residence, The Cloister Villa) to hospitality venues (BONI Restaurant, SAITO Restaurant, Mi Garba Wine Bar, Coffee Project NY) to large-scale architectural projects (Silver Towers in Moscow, Taichung City Cultural Center, Tamanaco Conjunto Office Building in Caracas). The multidisciplinary design approach combines spatial experience, sustainable strategies, and technology integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architectural Design Services Comprehensive architectural design services for residential, commercial, civic, and hospitality projects, including master planning, high-rise buildings, mixed-use developments, and sustainable design solutions. Targeted at developers, institutions, and high-net-worth clients.
• Interior Design Services Interior design services encompassing customized residential, commercial, hospitality (restaurants, SPAs, medical beauty clinics), and retail interiors with focus on material selection, spatial connection, conceptual storytelling, and soft furnishing integration. Targeted at hospitality operators, boutique commercial clients, and luxury residential clients.
• Lighting Design Services Professional lighting design services integrated within architectural and interior projects to enhance spatial experience and environmental quality. Targeted at architectural project owners and interior design clients.
• Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Solutions VR/AR design solutions and visualization services enabling interactive experiences for project presentations and design exploration. Includes software development by XR Technologist Harold Shin, with apps published in Google Play and Apple App Store. Targeted at architectural clients seeking immersive design visualization.

Named customers19 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Red CrosscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2009Collaborated with Red Cross on post-Morakot Typhoon disaster rebuilding in Taiwan. Designed Free Methodist Church and rebuilt two villages for displaced families. The project utilized preserved wood panels from destroyed villages with families' carved history.
• K+SPACINGcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership with K+SPACING in Taipei for LNZ.taipei office. K+SPACING is a design partner that shares office space and collaborates on Taiwan-based projects.
• Design DeterminationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNew York-based design collaborator listed as a collaborator at 39 East 13th Street location. Works alongside LNZ on various projects.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• AvroKO: Boutique hospitality-focused architecture and interior design firm with offices in New York and beyond. Direct peer given shared emphasis on narrative-driven hospitality interiors, restaurant and bar design, and a multidisciplinary studio model.
• Handel Architects: New York architecture firm focused on large-scale residential, hospitality, and mixed-use towers. Comparable to LNZ in executing high-rise residential projects (analogous to Silver Towers) and NYC hospitality work.
• Rockwell Group: New York-based multidisciplinary design studio founded by David Rockwell, integrating architecture, interior, lighting, and immersive experience design for hospitality, residential, and cultural projects. Closely comparable to LNZ in combining storytelling, lighting, and spatial design across similar end-markets.
• Yabu Pushelberg: Toronto and New York-based luxury hospitality, residential, and retail design studio. Comparable to LNZ in serving ultra-high-net-worth residential and boutique hospitality clients with multidisciplinary interior and lighting-led design.
• IA Interior Architects: Global interior architecture firm serving workplace, hospitality, and residential clients. Comparable to LNZ's interior-design service line, though operating at significantly larger scale across more geographies.
• CetraRuddy: New York architecture firm with deep residential, hospitality, and mixed-use practice. Comparable to LNZ in city base, project types (luxury residential towers, hospitality, mixed-use), and emphasis on integrated interior architecture.
• Morris Adjmi Architects: New York architecture firm known for adaptive reuse, residential, and hospitality projects with strong interior-architecture integration. Comparable to LNZ in scale, NYC base, and mix of residential/hospitality/commercial portfolio.

Broad incumbents

• Gensler: Global architecture, design, and planning firm with a large hospitality, residential, and commercial practice. Comparable as a broad incumbent against which LNZ competes for premium hospitality and mixed-use commissions, but with vastly greater scale and resources.

Emerging players

• SPAN Architecture: Emerging New York architecture firm with a multidisciplinary portfolio in residential, cultural, and adaptive reuse work. Comparable to LNZ in boutique scale and project-type mix, with slightly stronger cultural-institution visibility.
• Worrell Yeung: Brooklyn-based architecture and design studio working across residential, hospitality, and cultural projects. Comparable to LNZ in boutique studio model, residential/hospitality mix, and integration of architecture with interior detailing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lnz

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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