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Environments for Aging Announces

2025 Remodel/Renovation Competition Winners

Jurors completed their evaluations of twenty-four entries this past week. The following projects received Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards, and another four projects were named Finalists (high-scoring projects).

 

Submissions focused on single spaces, including dining areas, lounges, activity areas, lobbies, and other resident spaces.

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GOLD Award Winner

Battery Park by Sunrise – Multipurpose/Social Space (New York, N.Y.)
Submitted by HKS Inc.

 

 

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SILVER Award Winner

Willow Valley Manor Community – Lobby

(Lancaster, Pa.)
Submitted by RLPS Interiors and CCS Building Group

 

 

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BRONZE Award Winner

The Osborn – Social Lounge

(Rye, N.Y.)
Submitted by KDA Architects

 

 

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From top, left to right: Fernando Bonilla-Verdesoto, Principal & Founder (Soto Architecture & Urban Design, PLLC), Amy Bursey, President (Monogram Design Consultants), Melanie Eaton, Instructor, Health Care Administration (HCA and MHA), Department of Public Health (Western Kentucky University), Dena Erickson, Principal/Interior Designer (Studio Belle Interiors), Lorraine Hiatt, Ph.D., Environmental Gerontologist (ImprovAging™ Lifestyles and Design), Amy Maldonado, Associate/Senior Living Team Manager (Pope Design Group), Jill Quam, Interior Designer (Wold Architects and Engineers), Janet Simpson, VP of Operations (WesleyLife), and Paul Younger, Project Manager (Allied Partners)

Finalists are:

 

The Admiral at the Lake – Formal Dining (Chicago)
Submitted by Spellman Brady & Company

 

BrookMeadow at Cobb Corner – Main and Private Dining (Boston)
Submitted by Thoma-Holec Design

 

The Current Beverly – Living Room (Beverly, Mass.)
Submitted by Bignell Watkins Hasser Architecture & Interiors

 

Mount Carmel Bluffs – Motherhouse Bistro & Dining (Dubuque, Iowa)
Submitted by Pope Design Group

 

Gold, Silver, and Bronze Winners will receive special recognition at our annual Environments for Aging Conference + Expo (March 16-18, 2026 - Phoenix). 

 

Please be sure to look for highlights from all of this year's entries in the Fall 2025 issue of Environments for Aging.

Also coming in the Fall 2025 issue of Environments for Aging...

 

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