Park WellState Nishiazabu set out with a goal: to create true independent living for its residents in the heart of Tokyo. The community, owned and operated by Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co., Ltd. sought out to create a new model of urban senior living and towers over the surrounding area with 36 floors to offer panoramic […]

A senior living project in Mountain View, California shows how memory care can thrive on a compact urban site. Villa Toscana Memory Care combines a 60-bed memory care community with street-level retail and dining on just 0.85 acres, creating a three-story, roughly 39,000-square-foot development that links senior housing with a walkable commercial corridor. The project […]

The Springs Living faced a significant challenge in developing its latest property, The Springs at the Waterfront: It had to bring its standard design principles, used for larger parcels of land, to its first high-density urban market. The McMinnville, Oregon-based operator also grappled with how to bring nature to an urban setting while building its […]

The backers of Hayes Barton Place in Raleigh, North Carolina, sought to blend nostalgic charm with modern senior living inside the city’s beltline. They achieved that partly by drawing inspiration from the surrounding area. The result is a walkable continuing care retirement community (CCRC) that connects to a variety of sought after destinations meant to […]

A three-phrase repositioning and renovation at the Assisted Living and Memory Support of EverTrue Mason Pointe community near St. Louis has modernized the community and helps to meet the needs of today’s senior living customers who represent the “future of senior living.” The repositioning project reconfigured 205 units into 147 units offering 30 unique unit […]

Resident preferences are changing, and one senior living community in Alabama tailored its wellness services for a new generation with a holistic approach that includes resort-like amenities and services The active adult community in Hoover, Alabama, was designed to be more than a dwelling for older adults. It was made as a “a framework for […]

A historic hotel that once hosted Washington, D.C.’s elite and powerful is now a luxury senior living community thanks to a renovation project that updated the building while maintaining its character. In 2021, Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) and its operating partner, Maplewood Senior Living, announced the expansion of the company’s SHN Architecture and Design […]

A senior living project near Boston breathed new life into a former college campus, transforming it into a destination for aging and living well. The Newbury of Brookline – owned by affiliates of Welltower (NYSE: WELL) and Kisco Senior Living – spans 159 units for independent living, assisted living and memory care residents. Its location […]

A senior living project just south of San Francisco transformed a former industrial site into a multigenerational hub for socialization and luxury-focused aging. The project, Ellore Senior Living, in Santa Clara, California, comprises 176 units in a tower design spanning 20 floors and 240,000 square feet. The community’s blend of unique architecture and high-end interior […]

Senior Housing News, a WTWH Healthcare publication, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Senior Housing News (SHN) Architecture & Design Awards (https://shnawards.com/). Communities across the United States and the globe submitted new construction and renovation/repositioning projects this year, vying for top honors across 16 categories: “The submissions for the 2025 SHN Architecture […]