£5,000 of funds allocated to help Scottish Huntington’s Association run their important work
In November 2021, the Alan Davidson Foundation awarded £5,000 of unrestricted funds to help Scottish Huntington’s Association run their important work in Scotland. Scottish Huntington’s Association (SHA) was established over 30 years ago by families and has grown into an extensive Scotland-wide network of specialist clinical services, financial wellbeing support and youth services. Huntington’s disease […]
The Foundation awards £10,000 in recognition of St John’s Hospice in offering palliative care
In recognition of the important work St John’s Hospice is offering in palliative care, the Foundation is delighted to award £10,000 of unrestricted funds, as a yearly commitment. In recognition of the important work St John’s Hospice is offering in palliative care, the Foundation is delighted to award £10,000 of unrestricted funds, as a yearly […]
The Archiboo Awards 2021 ceremony was held at the Bureau in North Greenwich Design District
The Archiboo Awards have always been held in a new building of architectural interest, Bureau has been designed by HNNA with interiors by Roz Barr Architects. Other buildings in the District includes work by 6a Architects, David Kohn Architects and Mole Architects. The winner of the Alan Davidson Award for Storytelling was dn&co for their […]
The Foundation sets up The Alan Davidson Scholarship with the University of Kent
Alan was a great believer in education and one of his final wishes was to support a student through university to study architectural visualisation. The £10,000 scholarship is awarded annually to a home-student showing great promise and talent In September 2021, the foundation set up The Alan Davidson Scholarship with the University of Kent. The […]
Announcing The Davidson Prize 2021 Winner
This inaugural year saw entries of incredible high standards, which made the shortlisting and final judging very difficult but equally thrilling and inspiring. Congratulations to the winning team HomeForest. Winning team HomeForest Congratulations to the winning team HomeForest. Haptic Architects, Squint/Opera, Coda to Coda, LionHeart and Yaoyao Meng came together to produce the compelling and […]
Alan’s final wishes were to make one-off donations to these causes
One of Alan’s final wishes was to donate to The Long Now Foundation, Wikimedia and Electronic Frontier Foundation to support the initiatives that he greatly admired and supported. The Long Now Foundation One of Alan’s final wishes was to donate £10,000 to the Long Now Foundation to support their initiatives especially around the library project […]
Alan Davidson Foundation award a £5,000 grant to the Hospital of Neuro-disability
Alan Davidson Foundation awarded a £5,000 grant to the Hospital of Neuro-disability towards a research project into the care and treatment of people who require long term-care. In September 2021 the Foundation awarded a £5,000 grant to the Hospital of Neuro-disability towards a research project into the care and treatment of people who require long […]
Archiboo returns with a relaunched Alan Davidson Award for 2021 harnessing the power of storytelling
This new award is for a project that is utilising powerful storytelling to engage audiences in new and innovative ways. While static imagery and physical models continue to play an important role, stories about future places and buildings are becoming more immersive as new technologies and creative approaches continue to expand the range of what’s […]
Runners from around the world take part in a virtual 5km for HD5K 2021
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, runners competed individually from their own location using an app, tracking and timing their run. Prizes were distributed to the fastests and participants raising the most funds. We are so grateful for the various fundraising activities, entry fees and generous donations. Including our match funding, we are delighted that the event […]
The Alan Davidson Foundation is delighted to be launching The Davidson Prize 2021
One of Alan’s wishes was for the Foundation to create a new architecture prize focussing on the design of a contemporary home. Home was important to Alan, as an architect, he strongly believed that every human should have a home, as a right. He particularly supported various charities helping those who do not have a […]
