The Davidson Prize

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

This theme called for inventive solutions to address the UK's ambitious goal of building 1.5 million homes over the next five years.

Creative Partner: Hayes Davidson

People's Choice Sponsor: Humanise

See the results for the 2025 competition here.

The brief below can be used as a reference point and guidance for teams planning to participate next year! Subscribe to our email updates to be the first to know when the next theme is live.

Launched in 2020, The Davidson Prize has been established in memory of Alan Davidson (1960–2018) – architect, artist, technologist, innovator and founder of London-based architecture visualisation studio Hayes Davidson.

The annual design ideas competition rewards architectural ideas that imaginatively rethink the design of the contemporary home. The prize is administered by the Alan Davidson Foundation.

Alan Davidson was a passionate believer in the power of storytelling, and the prize celebrates traditional and new ways of communicating architectural ideas from drawing to film and immersive technologies.

Each year, entrants are asked to consider a different aspect of future living. Three finalists receive £5,000 to develop their ideas. The overall winner receives a prize of £10,000.