Hiring, Designing, and Developing with an Architect
Whether you’re building a home from the ground up or developing a new restaurant, working with an architect is an essential part of the process. Learn more about hiring and collaborating with an architect, as well as how I have designed projects with my clients in these videos.
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Why Should You Hire an Architect?
An architect brings a professional set of eyes to examine your unique needs, challenges, and priorities. In this video, architect Lynn Gaffney shares the benefits of hiring an architect and why should you work with an architect.
Bringing in an Architect Early
What are the benefits of hiring an architect, even before you’ve found your property? An architect can help you evaluate spaces that will work for your vision and budget, as well as help you to think through your requirements and consideration set.
How Inspiration Can Elevate Your Hospitality or Institutional Project Through Design
Opening a new restaurant, bar, café, or boutique hotel? Want to create the perfect backdrop for your vision, whether it’s a new restaurant or an addition? I share my experiences incorporating personality and design vision into client projects in this short video.
How to Bring Vision to Life for Your Residential Project
In this short video, architect Lynn Gaffney shares how personal inspirations can inform the design, look, and feel of projects. She also shares the story of her first residential project — designing an extended entry foyer for her childhood home.
How to Bring Your Institutional and Non-profit Project to Life
Designing an education center from the ground up in Nicaragua required a thoughtful approach that respected the needs of the community and honored the environment in which it was built. In this short video, I talk about the design development of this project.
Discover the Design Inspiration within the “Blank Slate”
Are you starting a project from the ground up? It can be daunting to begin with a blank slate, but as architect Lynn Gaffney shows in this video, your project will be informed by the views, the surroundings, and the needs of your family or organization. Learn more about how she discovers the design inspiration in these “empty canvas” projects.
650 Square Foot West Village Apartment Tour: Before, During, After Renovation
In this video, I go inside the renovation of my clients’ 650 square foot New York City apartment, designed for a family of four. My clients lived in their converted studio apartment for 19 years before I started the design. This project was a gut renovation to open up the space and bring a level of finish and sophistication to their home.