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Local citizens, dignitaries, and project participants joined the Sisters from the Mother of God Monastery on August 3rd, 2023 to celebrate the grand opening of the Village at Harmony Hill, in Watertown, South Dakota. This development is a major investment in the people of South Dakota, extending the Sisters’ mission to support the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of the people in the region.
The project,
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Members of the PRA Senior Living Design Studio recently cheered on the Benedictine Sisters of the Mother of God Monastery. August 3rd, 2023 memorialized an important contribution to senior living with the opening of The Village of Harmony Hill, in Watertown, SD. The Village, phase one of a larger initiative, substantiates a mission-driven commitment to the local community with room for sixty-four seniors.
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In May 2021, our Milwaukee Design Office had the pleasure of hosting Dan Wein, a friend and valued collaborator from AlphaDigitalPro, who expressed a genuine interest in the life of an architect and comparing notes about the challenges of building a resilient design firm. Dan, Larry,
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When working on projects, the sweetest reward is providing functional and aesthetic projects for our clients that fulfill their vision and meets their needs. We exist to help improve their lives by improving their facilities, and it is a great honor when our collaborative efforts with our clients are recognized by our peers for an award. This year at the 2023 ASID Wisconsin’s Design Excellence Awards Gala our collaborative teams were recognized for FIVE awards.
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For millennia, people have lived together across many generations. Indeed, living with one’s grandparents, or town elders, was a commonplace and even honored tradition in the 19th and early 20th century of many cultures. The explosion of residential development and wide acceptance of automobile-based planning in the postwar era provided unmitigated prosperity, with a reduction in mixed generations and cohousing. The reduction of generations living together is an unintended consequence of the post-war era prosperity, but with it comes the loss of the intangible benefits of living with an extended age group. Recognizing this, three organizations are involved in exploring the benefits of intergenerational housing at a new facility: Trinity Woods in Milwaukee, Wisconsin..
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The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed some facilities to make changes quickly. The industry’s underlying concern should maintain focus on design trends with positive outcomes and avoid returning to less useful design ideas. The recent work done by a variety of these facilities has helped to validate some of these design trends as especially useful.
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A turnkey modular transitional care unit provides flexible step-down care through a new partnership of Plunkett Raysich Architects and MDN Development
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Renter retirees are becoming younger and interested in non-traditional amenities of senior living communities. Senior living providers have taken note and are providing new environments, and experiences, that stress lifestyle over aging.
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Four recently-completed facilities designed by Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP (PRA) were honored by the Wisconsin Chapter of American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) at the organization’s 2019 Design Excellence Awards on March 21.
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