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Final Entry Deadline Approaching: SHN Architecture & Design Awards
By Jessica Longly| August 27, 2025The final deadline for this year’s SHN Architecture & Design Awards is almost here. Don’t miss your chance to inspire your addiction treatment, autism treatment, and behavioral health peers. Showcase your organization’s innovative new construction & renovation projects by entering the SHN Architecture & Design Awards by August 31, 2025 at 11:59pm CDT. The SHN […]
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The early bird deadline for this year’s SHN Architecture & Design Awards is fast approaching. Save $100 on your entry fee when you submit your memory care, senior housing & senior living organization’s new construction or renovation project by July 31 at 11:59pm CDT. The SHN Architecture & Design Awards program is a competition judged […]
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In Xi’an, China, stands a community aiming to set a “new standard” for multigenerational living. Central to the community is a “green valley” concept that transformed what might have been an underutilized area into a defining feature. The community, Zhongda International 99, was designed to bring natural light and fresh air to amenity spaces located […]
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Lush gardens, intimate villas, passive cooling design, walking paths, fountains, multiple restaurants – these aren’t features of an upscale resort, but of a senior living community in Arizona. Those features are part of a newly added independent living neighborhood dubbed “Inspirata Pointe” at Royal Oaks, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Sun City, Arizona. […]
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The Luther Crest Senior Living Community in Allentown, Pennsylvania underwent an expansive renovation plan that included a complete transformation of the community’s culinary and dining experience. As part of a $11 million renovation project for the community center on campus, leaders transformed the dining experience from a typical, buffet-style layout into a modernized culinary experience […]
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The LiveWell team had a vision to create a unique, co-living dementia care model centered on creating a home-like environment for residents living with cognitive decline. To get there, the company embarked on a multi-year journey to create a new option for people to live their lives to the fullest while seamlessly incorporating resident safety […]
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Leaders at Brewster Place in Topeka, Kansas, knew they would need to embark on an expansive revitalization effort to bring a building at the senior living community into the 21st century. Virtually unchanged since 1968, the five-story concrete building, known as the Redwood building, was practically “stuck in a time capsule.”. In the 1990s, the […]
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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 […]

