Care Home

   York-based DWA Architects has secured planning permission to transform a vacant office building into a state-of-the-art assisted living complex in Peterborough for adults with learning difficulties.   On behalf of Precious Homes, DWA had to creatively retain the locally listed frontage, whilst designing two new buildings, to create 24 assisted living homes.   The new homes, located on Eastfield Road, will help support adults with learning difficulties and will …

Construction of a specialist, state-of-the-art, nursing and dementia care home in Sleaford, designed by York-based DWA Architects, has just been completed and planning permission has been granted to build another 20 bedrooms to the home.   Designed on behalf of the Glenholme Senior Living, and built by construction company Goldfinch Developments, Holdingham Grange is a £5.2 million, specialist care development. The recent planning permission will result in the facility having …

Leading care home designers, DWA Architects, recently hosted a delegation of Chinese Government officials to one of its successful care home projects in the UK.   Organised by the Department of International Trade, it follows extensive work that York-based DWA Architects has undertaken in China over recent years.   The delegation visited the Victoria Care Centre in Park Royal, West London, to highlight the best of care home design in …

Two York firms have worked on delivering a new specialist care home site in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.   DWA Architects and WA Consulting Engineers were key members of the project team that worked on the Bupa-operated Goldbridge luxury care home, which has just opened to its first residents.   The 64-bed care home provides nursing, residential and dementia care and features a cinema, beauty salon and special landscaped gardens …

DWA Architects is an RIBA Chartered Practice, with offices in London, Manchester and York, and has been producing Award winning designs for the past 30 years. As well as holding an extensive portfolio of UK based projects, DWA are passionately committed to exporting our highly regarded UK and Internationally recognised specialist design expertise around the globe. We have in place highly successful collaborative partnerships with locally – based consultancies.   This …

Shangcai Care home is located in the Henan province of China and is a specialist memory care facility, designed by DWA Architects. The client brief called for a modern western styled home which incorporated the UK design philosophy and approach to dementia care whilst still integrating elements of Chinese culture. The design includes internal court yard gardens which are filled with local Chinese flowers and plants which provided the familiarity …