LOS ANGELES: The top 10 multigenerational apartment housing complexes which opened in 2014, have been nominated for a Global Award. All have been shortlisted on the basis that they sought to reorganise and improve the conditions in which we work and live.

Rotterdam’s Markthal combines two dissimilar program types – composed as a housing building which arches over an indoor market hall. Designed by architecture office MVRDV, the facility offers public access for eating, drinking, and shopping, while also accommodating 228 apartments of varying size, consistently featuring externally facing balconies. Additionally, the living units offer a view inward to the market hall, with windows made of sound- and smell-proof triple glazing to block these undesired senses…

This trend is covered in detail in the Seniors Housing Trends Text Book Series