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Best Active Adult Design of 2024: Luxury Living With Local Flair
By Andrew Christman| February 3, 2025Situated between the Blue Ridge Mountains and Atlanta, Georgia, The Wescott blends luxury living with a locally inspired look and feel for active adult residents. Designed by Foley Design and Associates and managed by Meridian Group, the 120-unit active adult community in Canton, Georgia, meshes with the local downtown district to offer unique views and […]
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To Mather CEO Mary Leary, the organization’s newest life plan community in the Washington, D.C. market has an opportunity to redefine senior living wellness and lifestyle standards for a new generation of residents. The community, built in a master-planned area in Tysons, Virginia, that includes a public park, spans two towers and conforms to Leadership […]
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Best Small Footprint Design of 2024: PACE Center With Homelike Charm
By Andrew Christman| January 27, 2025Healthcare and social connections blend seamlessly in a new Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) location in Winchester, Virginia. The organization behind the project, Blue Ridge, was inspired by the “community village” concept in its new concept, which is a PACE center that conjures a more homelike than clinical atmosphere. The program resides […]
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Best CCRC/LPC Lite Design of 2024: Living Well While Going Green
By Andrew Christman| January 14, 2025Kisco Senior Living’s The Carnegie at Washingtonian Center project centered on two big ideas: Allowing residents to live fully while promoting sustainability with the surrounding area. With 40% of its eight acre urban site to reforestation efforts and features such as walking paths, biophilic landscape design and rainwater filtration systems, the community is designed to […]
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Spanning an entire city block in Coral Gables, Florida, Belmont Village Coral Gables balances social connectivity and modern style with connections to the outdoors and nature. To Belmont Village CEO Patricia Will, the mixed-use project is a “garden in the sky” with 10 stories housing multiple landscaped terraces. The project’s design emphasizes resident health and […]
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By: Courtney Ryan For the last few years, the senior living industry has faced high construction costs and financing hurdles, slowing the development of new projects and communities. The memory care sector has been no exception. In the past, many operators would use each new community as a new blueprint for evolution or innovation. Given […]
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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 SHN Architecture & Design Awards
By Jessica Longly| October 31, 2024Senior Housing News, a WTWH Healthcare publication, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 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 20 categories: “The entries for the 2024 SHN Architecture […]
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Planning for the next generation of senior living residents propelled leaders at the Bay Village life plan community to pursue redevelopment to modernize the community on Florida’s Gulf Coast. In updating outdated design at the 12-story community, sweeping amenities changes and space redesigns were made to refresh the building first built in 1975. A major […]
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Friendship Village Tempe, a senior living community in Tempe, Arizona, is landlocked, with no horizontal room on which to grow. In 2023, LCS Development was looking to expand the community by replacing an outdated independent living building. Limited by the community’s ability to grow outward, the design team took the project vertical. The design that […]
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There is plenty of innovation in architecture and design occurring in the U.S.-based senior living industry. The same is true across the globe. Forward-thinking architecture and design concepts were on display in three projects submitted to the 2023 Senior Housing News Architecture and Design Awards: Royal View by Auria Senior Living, Kunz Raubenheimer Architects and […]