ATLANTA: 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.

MAD Architects’ project, the “Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center”, is a metropolis-scaled plan which includes an overall bulding area of 560,000 sqm including many housing towers and a village-like community of low buildings. Gardens and waterways meander through the entirety of the site, with an aim to promote the traditional Chinese ethos of shanshui; an achieved spiritual harmony between nature and humanity. The complex is currently under construction, and estimated to be completed in 2017.

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