Contemporary Design for Assisted Living 
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DETAILS

LocationOsaka Prefecture, Japan
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Located in a bedroom community midway between Osaka and Kyoto, this facility has both Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing levels of care. The landscape design, complementing the modernist architecture, is organic and fluid with meandering paths traversing various gardens on the south side of the building connecting feature terraces located at each end of the building spine.

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