The Davidson Prize

The Davidson Prize 2025 theme is... Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes

The Davidson Prize is an annual £25,000 design ideas competition recognising transformative architecture of the home. The prize exists to celebrate innovative design ideas, to encourage multi-disciplinary collaboration and to promote compelling visual communication.

The 2025 theme is: Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes.

2025 Theme:
Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes

The theme of The Davidson Prize 2025 is: Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes.

We will be calling for inventive solutions to address the UK's ambitious goal of building 1.5 million homes over the next five years. The full brief and jury will be announced in January 2025.

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This first round of judging took place on Wednesday 20 March at AHMM and our expert panel of judges had the very challenging, but enjoyable, task of choosing a longlist to be considered for the next round of judging.

Sustainability needs to be an inherent part of the process

We spoke with Alexander Turner, Co-Founding Director of Studio MUTT and member of the winning team of the 2023 Davidson Prize, about looking at sustainability throughout the design process and the importance of physical models.

Radical approaches to adaptive reuse

We spoke with Alice Finney, Design Editor at Elle Decoration UK, about design approaches and materials that break the mould.

About the
Davidson
Prize

The Davidson Prize rewards architecture that imaginatively rethinks the design of the contemporary home to keep pace with the times and people's lifestyle preferences.

The aim is to promote excellent design and wellbeing and the compelling communication of these solutions.

Each year the prize will address a different aspect of the home, starting with home/work. Three finalist teams will each receive an honorarium of £5,000 and the winner will receive a £10,000 prize.