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  • Arquitectura Nativa creates rammed-earth retreat for retired archaeologist

    Arquitectura Nativa has completed a home in Mexico for a retired archaeologist and their partner, using "rudimentary and artisanal techniques" that help the home blend into its surroundings. More

    James Brillon | 29 July 2022 | Leave a comment
  • READ & Architects builds retirement house that doubles as a vacation home in Japanese mountain town

    This house near Japan's Mount Asama was designed by READ & Architects for a couple starting their retirement, but it can also be used as a vacation home by their children and grandchildren. More

    Amy Frearson | 10 May 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Willunga House is a retirement residence designed around a garden and a view

    This garden house in suburban Adelaide was designed by architect-in-training Reuben French-Kennedy as a retirement home for his parents. More

    Amy Frearson | 29 December 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Shift Architecture Urbanism adapts historic Dutch monastery for ageing residents

    Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism has extended the Oude Dijk monastery in Tilburg with a brick extension with a nursing home and apartments for its residents, the Sisters of Charity. More

    Jon Astbury | 8 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Morris + Company clads Hampstead retirement home in modulated brick

    Morris + Company has completed a retirement living scheme with a bevelled brick facade for developer Pegasus Life in Hampstead, London. More

    Jon Astbury | 2 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • ACDF builds Panorama retirement home for "sophisticated seniors" on outskirts of Montreal

    Montreal firm ACDF Architecture has designed a 30-storey tower to accommodate elderly housing in Quebec featuring interiors that are more akin to a boutique hotel. More

    Bridget Cogley | 26 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Alyn Griffiths | 23 February 2019 | Leave a comment
  • David Baker creates apartment building for low-income seniors in San Francisco

    American studio David Baker Architects took cues from West African culture while conceiving this affordable housing complex for people aged 62 or older. More

    Jenna McKnight | 24 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Dominique Coulon adopts terracotta tones for riverside retirement home near Basel

    Textured brick facades are complemented by terracotta-toned communal spaces in this elderly housing complex, completed by French office Dominique Coulon & Associés in a suburb of Basel. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 26 September 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Coffey Architects creates brick-clad retirement housing on derelict industrial laundry site

    London-based architecture studio Coffey Architects has completed 34 retirement flats in Woking, UK, with a warehouse-like silhouette that reflects the site's industrial heritage. More

    Laura Mark | 21 September 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Ali Morris | 14 September 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Dan Howarth | 27 March 2017 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Alyn Griffiths | 27 March 2017 | 8 comments
  • Co-living is perfect to house ageing populations says Matthias Hollwich

    Co-living complexes like WeLive and The Collective aren't just for millennials – they could also be used to house the growing population of senior citizens, according to architect and Architizer co-founder Matthias Hollwich. More

    Amy Frearson | 17 November 2016 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Amy Frearson | 17 November 2016 | 2 comments
  • 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

    Alyn Griffiths | 31 October 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Epilepsy care home by Atelier Martel features stippled concrete walls

    Soft indents create hundreds of spots across the concrete walls of this health centre in northeast France, designed by Atelier Martel to offer support and treatment to epilepsy sufferers (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 17 February 2016 | 4 comments
  • 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

    Amy Frearson | 17 November 2015 | 3 comments
  • Coconut groves surround brick retirement home on a Thai beach by NPDA Studio

    This stripy brick home stands among coconut trees on the shoreline of Ko Pha Ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 9 November 2015 | 1 comment
  • 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

    Alyn Griffiths | 25 January 2015 | 12 comments
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