Studio Professionals
60+
Construction Value
Housing Units
82k+
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Hord Coplan Macht was founded with the goal of providing exceptional architectural, landscape architectural, planning and interior design services to our clients. We provide these services for senior living, affordable housing, multifamily/mixed-use, healthcare, education, commercial office and retail clients with award-winning expertise on a local, regional and national level. We forge lasting relationships with our clients that extend well beyond a singular project. It is the strength of these relationships, coupled with the satisfaction of the end users, which provides the metric by which we measure our success.
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Esra Martin
Brooke Fink
Meg Smith
Christian Fussy
Liz Petersen
Cynthia Shonaiya
Scott Davis
Morningstar at
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Broadview at suny purchase college
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Meg Smith
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Cynthia Shonaiya
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Liz Petersen
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Christian Fussy
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Scott Davis
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Creative. Entrepreneurial. Responsible. Diverse. Sensitive. HCM is flexible and we care about helping people realize their potential. We do much more as a team than simply design together, we also volunteer at schools in our communities, play softball, plant trees, climb mountains, prepare meals for families at local children’s hospitals, and much more. HCMers are not just co-workers, we are family.
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Designing senior living environments is a full-time commitment. The entire premise of our design is one which creates a thoughtful, functional and attractive community that exemplifies our clients’ mission and ideals, and provides a place that enhances the holistic wellness of the residents who live there. We consistently produce award-winning designs.
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Hord Coplan Macht is the 2nd largest Senior Living design firm in the US. Our portfolio includes a broad spectrum of senior living communities—affordable and market rate, urban and suburban, utilizing contemporary, transitional, and traditional architectural styles, as appropriate. We are adept to successfully delivering projects nationwide having worked on master plans, designs, and construction administration in 30 states. From these projects, Hord Coplan Macht has won numerous local and national awards from various awarding organizations, including: National Association of Home Builders, Senior Housing News, Environments for Aging, the American Institute of Architects, and Multifamily Executive Awards.
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MASTER PLANNING /
REPOSITIONING
LIFE PLANNING COMMUNITY
INDEPENDENT LIVING
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
60+
The grandview
ASSISTED LIVING & mEMORY CARE
Fairfax, VA
Brightview Dulles Corner
Bethesda, MD
The Grandview
Fort Collins, CO
MorningStar at Old Town
Huntsville, AL
Encore Mid-City
Purchase, NY
Broadview at SUNY Purchase College
Associate Principal
AIA
Cindy Shonaiya is a Principal at Hord Coplan Macht and has 30 years of professional experience, spanning three continents. She serves as Market Sector Leader of HCM’s Senior Living and Affordable Housing practice and has been Principal in Charge on numerous Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Active Adult and Affordable Senior Housing projects.
Additionally, she is chair of the Maryland State Board of Architects, serves on the American Institute of Architects Design for Aging Leadership Group, is a juror for several national design competitions, and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.
Senior Living | Affordable Housing Market Sector Leader
Cynthia Shonaiya
Scott Davis has over 23 years of professional experience as an Architect and is a Principal for Hord Coplan Macht. Scott is responsible for the design and management of a variety of projects in the Senior Living Market Sector. These include Master planning, CCRC and Life Plan communities, urban mixed-use buildings, Active Adult, Repositioning, Hospitality, and Healthcare-focused projects.
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Scott Davis
Christian, born and educated in Germany, has overseen and managed complex projects in Europe, North America, South Africa, and the Far East.
His diverse experience includes a wide range of projects from high-rise multi-family, hospitality, and healthcare projects. His extensive experience with senior living and care environments spans large-scale life plan communities (CCRC’s), independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, short-term rehab, and special care environments to free-standing luxury active adult communities.
Principal
Christian Fussy
Liz brings over 30 years of award-winning architectural design experience to the project team. She shepherds the entitlement process, managing in-house staff, consultants and public entities toward project approval. She holds client relationships as a critical factor to her success with a project, by listening to various design factors such as project timing, program, budget and jurisdiction parameters, and is successful in maintaining clients over multiple projects for repeat business. As project designer, she utilizes a holistic approach to design, where site and building complement each other and work together to create energetic and timeless space.
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Liz Petersen
Esra Martin is a design leader in HCM’s Senior Living and Affordable Housing market sectors, guiding clients and design teams to craft compelling, programmatically intensive projects that enhance user experience and respond thoughtfully to their context.
Associate Principal
Esra Martin
Meg is a member of Hord Coplan Macht’s senior living studio with experience in senior living facilities, multi-unit housing, and commercial buildings. She is involved in all phases of a project including schematic design, design development, construction documents, bidding and negotiation, and construction administration.
Associate
Meg SMith
Esra Martin
Purchase, NY
Broadview at SUNY Purchase College
IL, AL & MC | 288 units | 242,500 sf | 40 acres
Fort Collins, co
IL, AL & MC | 160 units | 230,000 sf
MorningStar at Old Town
huntsville, al
Active Adult | 240 units | 325,000 sf
Encore mid-city
Fairfax, va
Active Adult | 240 units | 325,000 sf
brightview dulles corner
Bethesda, MD
IL, AL & MC | 1,300 units | 2.2 million sf
The Grandview
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EFA Design Showcase Honorable Meniton
A collaborative effort between college leaders, local business figures, and community stakeholders, the State University of New York allocated a portion of the campus to the development of Broadview, addressing the need for intergenerational living while also monetizing surplus land.
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Located at the northern edge of downtown Fort Collins, MorningStar at Old Town is a senior living and mixed-use project that embraces the historic character of Old Town Fort Collins. The four-story building runs the full block, anchored on the street level with 20,000 sf of commercial space.
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Encore MidCity is an innovative 232-unit intergenerational community in a new urbanist setting. Focused on providing the next generation of empty nesters with an attractive alternative to their existing home or more traditional 55+ housing, Encore takes advantage of the local community.
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Dulles Corner follows a new trend to embed senior living into communities. This 230,000 sf, seven-story building includes an extensive amenity program that includes food service and outdoor spaces. Many of the building’s private amenities spill onto a public park to the north of the site.
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Erickson Senior Living acquired the 33-acre Marriott International Headquarters to redevelop the site into a new urban continuing care retirement community with more than 1,400 units of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled care.
Acoustic Accessibility:
Enhancing Built Environments for Seniors
12:00 PM Tuesday, April 29
Scott Davis, Principal
Hord Coplan Macht
Craig Coleman, Audio Visual Specialist
Network Technologies, Inc.
Scott Dupuis, Principal
Network Technologies, Inc.
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AIA Design for Aging Merit Award
Work/Life Balance:
Office to Senior Living Conversions
10:45 AM Tuesday, April 29
Christian Fussy, Principal
Hord Coplan Macht
Scott Campagna, P.E. | VP of Housing
IMEG
Lea Cosenza, P.E.| Client Executive
IMEG
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Urban Oasis: Turning a 33-Acre Former Corporate Campus into The Grandview
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Senior Associate
Brooke Fink
NCIDQ
Brooke has extensive and comprehensive experience producing dynamic architectural designs and the completion of commercial and hospitality spaces. Brooke is skilled in applying creativity to design that develops in aesthetically pleasing and functional environments. She has a proven ability to implement design concepts through the completion of construction documents.
Senior Associate
Brooke Fink
Purchase, NY
AIA Design for Aging Merit Award
Huntsville, AL
Fairfax, va
Fort collins, CO
Bethesda, MD
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