Morris + Company completes Wildernesse Mews retirement homes in historic Kent estate
Morris + Company has staggered a terrace of brick houses for the elderly within the grounds of a 17th century mansion in Sevenoaks, Kent. More
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Projecting windows "distort the facades" of Portuguese care home
Nuno Piedade Alexandre has completed a black extension to an elderly care centre in the municipality of Ponte de Sor, Portugal, which is covered with protruding windows. More
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Guillem Carrera's care home in northern Spain encourages residents to socialise
Architect Guillem Carrera has completed an environmentally friendly elderly care home and day centre on a wedge-shaped plot in the Spanish village of Blancafort. More
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Subscription cookery kit is designed to help elderly women socialise
Central Saint Martins' graduate Magda Sabatowska has devised a cooking kit to help isolated elderly female residents of housing estates in Poland socialise with their neighbours. More
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Iredale Pedersen Hook creates Walumba Elders Centre for flood-hit Australian aboriginal community
A+Awards: a 2016 Architizer A+Award was bestowed upon this retirement home in Western Australia, designed by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects for an aboriginal community affected by devastating floods. More
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DRDH and adVVT complete elderly home in Belgium featuring pared-back finishes and open-air courtyards
DRDH Architects and Architecten de Vylder Vinck Tallieu have built an apartment complex and social centre for elderly people in Aarschot, Belgium, featuring simple materials, communal courtyards and few bold splashes of colour. More
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Concept apartment by Future Facility gives older residents "revolutionary domestic independence"
This installation at London's Design Museum strips household appliances back to their basics to make operation easier for an ageing population. More
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Yves Béhar's Aura Power Clothing helps the elderly with mobility
These responsive garments by Yves Béhar's studio Fuseproject feature "electric muscles" that assist elderly wearers to walk, stand up and climb stairs. More
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PriestmanGoode's Scooter For Life encourages older people to stay active for longer
This scooter with an trolley-like storage compartment was designed by London studio PriestmanGoode to make it easier for people with limited mobility to get around. More
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Haptic designs elderly housing for Norway to encourage residents to socialise
Haptic has been selected to create a housing complex in a picturesque Norwegian town with a growing elderly population. More
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Óscar Miguel Ares Álvares creates "abstract and hard" care home inspired by arid surroundings
Rows of concrete fins shade the large windows of this nursing home near the Spanish city of Valladolid, which features rooms clustered around a landscaped central courtyard. More
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Spark designs model for Asian retirement communities that double as city farms
World Architecture Festival 2015: architecture firm Spark has unveiled its concept for "the next generation of retirement housing" – a community of homes and health facilities combined with a vertical urban farm (+ slideshow). More
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White rooftops turn red during emergencies at retirement home by Guedes Cruz Architects
Fifty-two white-topped cubes make up the residences of this retirement home near Lisbon by Guedes Cruz Architects, but a roof turns bright red if someone inside sounds the alarm (+ slideshow). More
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Areal Architecten's Mayerhof retirement home wraps around two courtyards
This retirement home near Antwerp was designed by Belgian studio Areal Architecten around a pair of courtyards to avoid creating identical rooms along endless rows of corridors. More
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Morangis Retirement Home by Vous Êtes Ici Architectes
Doors, windows and recesses are picked out in yellow ochre on the timber facade of this retirement home near Paris by French studio Vous Êtes Ici Architectes (+ slideshow). More
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No Country For Old Men by Lanzavecchia + Wai
Italian-Singaporean designers Lanzavecchia + Wai have designed a collection of aids for the elderly with styling that's more domestic than medical. More
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House for elderly people by Aires Mateus Arquitectos
Architectural photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his images of a nursing home in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, by Portuguese studio Aires Mateus Arquitectos. More
