2025 RESULTS

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.

THE LONGLIST

F.U.N.N.E.L
A IS FOR ARCHITECTURE, WSP, Spacehub

An alternative to mass housebuilding – contextual design prototypes and a finance model for densification of small-town streets

Hardworking Landscapes
AOMD, Edit, Periscope, Dion Barrett, Ruth Lang

A new rural hamlet typology sharing infrastructure, domestic labour and agrarian responsibility

One House, Two Homes... make a neighbourhood
Ash Sakula with Human Nature

A new housing typology for existing streetscapes that doubles density without increasing footprint

WearWork
CARD Projects, PATCH Collective, and Maria McLintock

Reinventing industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards

300 Homes within a Union Street Mile
Clifton Emery Design, Nudge community builders, Millfields Trust, Plymouth Energy Community, Devon and Cornwall Planning Consultants

Macro placemaking and micro homemaking – a balanced model for integrating community homes on high streets

Between the Lines - Living with Industry
daab Design Architects, HomeGrown Plus, Expedition Engineering, Robert Bird Group, Third Revolution Projects, Atelier Crescendo

Rethinking planning and typologies around Strategic Industrial Locations to co-locate housing and employment

Permitted Development +
‘Elephant in the City’ - Morris+Company, Hub, Stantec/Hydrock, Studio Knight Stokoe, DP9

Embedding placemaking, sustainability and housing quality into office-to-residential conversions with kit-of-parts approach and design codes

Positive Disturbance – Realising Brownfield Potential
FLOC, MAZi, Hyem, Stef Leach, Broaden, Thurston Illustration, SHED, Artis, Henna Asikainen

Re-greening brownfield sites for lifetime neighbourhoods set in productive landscapes

Metroland
Harper Perry, Urban Design Works, and Studio Mint with North East Combined Authority and NEXUS Tyne and Wear Metro

Mirroring new neighbourhoods with existing public transit routes to counter greenfield development and car-dependent living

The Rail Belt
James Waddington with Nathaniel Welham and WSP

An innovative rail-overbuilding system for London to create space for 250,000 homes

Beta Boroughs - How Could Better Data Help Us Beat the Housing Crisis?
RCKa

Tackling missed housing targets with ‘beta boroughs’ – a hyper local approach to transformative and experimental planning and development

Kommuna Palace
Studio Woodroffe Papa Ltd, Lawrence Barth, Almitra Roosevelt and Anagha Othalur of AA Housing and Urbanism, Whitby Wood, XCO2.

The contemporary urban villa – a deep-plan housing and mixed-use typology for shared living and collective wellbeing

Forever Island - A New Model for Young Islanders
The Place Bureau

Keeping young people on the Isle of Wight with a community ecosystem of housing, sustainable skills training and work while promoting environmental stewardship

Growing Places
University of West England Students

Affordable and sustainable rented homes on small, infill or brownfield sites co-located with construction skills learning hubs

Living in the Landscape - A community for all ages
William Burgess & Oliver Burgess

A landscape-led patchwork model for existing communities – retrofit, adaptive reuse, extension and gentle densification

RUN!
Yolande Barnes Consulting & Space Syntax

Regenerative Urban Neighbourhoods – a data-based strategy for doubling housing numbers through innovative development frameworks

JUDGES

Pooja Agrawal CEO Public Practice
Jonny Buckland Co-Founder and Creative Director Studio Saar
Jonathan Falkingham Co-Founder and Creative Director Urban Splash
Akil Scafe-Smith Director RESOLVE Collective
Lucy Watson Commissioning Editor Financial Times