The 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.

For 2025, 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.

The 2025 registration of interest is now open!

The theme of the fourth £25,000 annual Davidson Prize was 'Rethinking Home - Adapt and Reuse'. The brief asked multi-disciplinary teams to communicate inventive solutions to address housing shortage in the context of climate change.

The theme of the third £25,000 annual Davidson Prize was 'Somewhere to Call Home'. The brief asked multi-disciplinary teams to communicate innovative design solutions for a home community where people who have experienced the trauma of homelessness and housing insecurity are given time to settle, recover and find their bearings.

The theme of the second £25,000 annual Davidson Prize was ‘Co–Living – A New Future?’. The brief asked whether co-living could offer a transformative key to the design of our homes – as well as our communities. The overall winner and People's Choice winner were announced at a live ceremony in June 2022 during the London Festival of Architecture.

For its inaugural year, the theme of the 2021 Davidson Prize was 'Home/Work – A New Future', which was prompted by the need to reassess how we want to live post-pandemic, with many people saying they would like to work from home more often. The prize for thought-provoking ideas around the design 
of the home was awarded in June 2021.