2024 RESULTS
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.
WINNER
Studio Saar, Landstory, Stories, BAS, Megaphone Creative
Apartment Store is the winner of The Davidson Prize 2024, and £10,000 prize money.
Apartment Store focuses on a redundant Art Deco department store in Taunton, Somerset, to explore how vacant retail space in the UK’s towns and cities could be reinvented as new homes and buzzing circular economy hubs. The model is designed to act as a defibrillator in increasingly hollowed-out town-centres.
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The winner of the first People’s Choice Prize was Apartment Store by Studio Saar, Landstory, Stories, BAS, Megaphone Creative.
Almost 2000 people voted in the public poll, with Apartment Store receiving over one quarter of the votes.
CHAIR'S HIGHLY COMMENDED
In a first for The Davidson Prize, Amandeep Singh Kalra, Chair of the jury, awarded a commendation to The Pylon Network, by Ground Practice Tropisms / German Nieva, Yasmin Lennon-Chong, Elena Tamosiunaite.
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