Categories

Categories

Senior Housing News (SHN) annual senior housing architecture and design competition gives owners, operators, developers, architects, and designers an opportunity to showcase their newly constructed and renovated communities to the SHN audience and the world. Each community that is entered is judged by a group of experienced senior living professionals including architects, designers, and more with a breadth of experience, expertise and knowledge of the industry.

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55+

The 55+ category should include new development projects for 55+ communities that are single-family dwelling, condominium, or townhome projects for purchase (non-rental).

Affordable Housing

The affordable housing category should include new development projects that take into account local definitions of low-to-moderate income housing programs, as well as projects that are specifically developed to lower the costs of construction and land acquisition, to drive the monthly rental costs as low as possible.

Behavioral Health

The behavioral health category includes all entries considered to be newly constructed, dedicated in-patient behavioral health buildings.

Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) / Life Plan (LPC)

The CCRC / Life Plan community entries must include the full continuum of care with a skilled nursing component on-site (new developments).

Independent Living

The independent living category includes all newly developed rental senior housing or senior apartments. Entrants in this category must have a commercial kitchen component.

Active Adult

The active adult category includes all new development rental senior housing or senior apartments that do not have a commercial kitchen component.

Assisted Living

The assisted living category will consist of new developments with as few as 12 beds and can be part of a larger community or campus. Entries that have a combination of assisted living and memory care in the same building should enter this category.

CCRC / LPC Lite

The CCRC / LPC Lite category should include new developments of any combination of independent living, assisted living, and memory care but exclude any skilled nursing component.

Hospice

This category includes all newly constructed hospices.

International

This category can include any project, new or renovated, outside of the United States and in any particular sub-category for consideration.

55+

Affordable Housing

Behavioral Health

Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) / Life Plan (LPC)

Independent Living

Active Adult

Assisted Living

CCRC / LPC Lite

Hospice

International

Dining Renovation – New!

Skilled Nursing / Post-Acute Care

Stand Alone Memory Care

Renovation/Repositioning – Updated for 2022

Small Footprint

Wellness: Health & Fitness – New!