The Davidson Prize launches 2026 brief ‘Changing the Game: Building Play into Housing’
In 2026, the Davidson Prize is inviting multidisciplinary teams to explore play for all, with the aim of generating new thinking and solutions that inspire vitality, joy and opportunities for interaction both inside and outside our homes. The Davidson Prize is an annual design ideas competition, established in 2020, to promote design innovation and encourage […]
The Davidson Prize 2025 winner is “300 Homes within a Union Street Mile!”
Thank you to everyone who came down to Heatherwick Studio to celebrate the 2025 longlisted, finalist and winning submissions of The Davidson Prize as part of the London Festival of Architecture. The judging panel had three outstanding finalists to choose from and we are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 Davidson Prize. Congratulations […]
Davidson Prize 2025: Finalists revealed ahead of June’s winner announcement
The Alan Davidson Foundation has officially unveiled the three finalists for the 2025 Davidson Prize, a prestigious £25,000 design ideas competition celebrating transformative architecture of the home. This year’s theme, “Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5 million homes,” challenged multidisciplinary teams to propose visionary solutions for at least 300 homes in urban, suburban, or rural […]
Exciting new brief announced for the Davidson Prize 2025 addressing housing shortages in the UK
The Alan Davidson Foundation is once again proud to support The Davidson Prize in its 5th year of this prestigious annual design competition. The 2025 Brief This year sees Hayes Davidson as a Creative Partner and the People’s Choice Prize is sponsored by Humanise, a 10-year global campaign to ignite mainstream public debate about the way […]
“Apartment Store” wins both the main prize and the People’s Choice at The Davidson Prize 2024
The Davidson Prize, now in its 4th year, held the award ceremony at Impact Hub in London Euston on June 19th as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Over 100 guests gathered to watch the Apartment Store team win both the main prize and the People’s Choice, with over a quarter of the 1,800 […]
The Davidson Prize announces their 2024 brief: “Rethinking Home – Adapt and Reuse”
Teams will be asked to choose any existing non-residential structure, from a disused farm building to an office block or an oil rig, to explore how it could be retrofitted or mined to provide at least five sustainable homes. The fourth annual award will demand an “ambitious rethink” of current assumptions around housing and will […]
“Helping Hands” is announced as the winner of The Davidson Prize 2023
Congratulations to Studio Mutt and Neighbourhood with The Independence Initiative, Hugh Baird College, Islington Hostel Outreach, Amber Akaunu, Peter O’Neil, Dead Good Poets Society on winning this year’s £10,000 prize. The Davidson Prize awards ceremony was held on June 20th as part of the London Festival of Architecture at the Istituto Marangoni in Shoreditch. The […]
The Davidson Prize returns for a third year with the theme: “Somewhere To Call Home”
The third annual prize for thought-provoking ideas around the design of the home will be awarded during LFA in June 2023. In its first 2 years The Davidson Prize tackled topical themes, first “home working” while we were living during Covid lock downs, then “co-living” looking at solutions to unaffordable rentals, care homes and home […]
The Davidson Prize returns for 2022 with a new theme: “Co-Living, a new future?”
The second annual prize for thought-provoking ideas around the design of the home will be awarded in June 2022. Co-living already exists in many forms, from student accommodation, diverse family networks, retirement communities, artist collectives and more. We had the pandemic, which inspired the 2021 theme, – now we are looking at the reported loneliness […]
The Foundation hosts a ceremony celebrating the finalists and winners of The Davidson Prize 2021
During a brief Covid respite, the Alan Davidson Foundation had the pleasure to host a ceremony to celebrate the finalists and winning teams of the 2021 Davidson Prize, showcase the submissions and hand-over well deserved trophies. The event, organised by the prize PR team at Caro Communications, was held at the SCP East furniture store […]
