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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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Concertina shutters shade the windows of Naud & Poux's Paris retirement home
Hinged shutters fold up and down over the windows of this monochromatic care home near Paris by French studio Naud & Poux (+ 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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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
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La Paz Nursing Home Garden by Estudio Caballero Colón
This garden in Madrid was designed by new Spanish firm Estudio Caballero Colón for a nursing home. More
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Mornington nursing home by Lyons Architects
The Mornington nursing home in Victoria, Australia, designed by Lyons Architects, is clad with bricks embossed to resemble timber. More
