Three finalists have been selected for the 2025 prize in the design ideas competition
This year’s Davidson Prize theme is Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes.
The winning team will receive £5,000 to kickstart their concepts for the last stage of the competition.
The winners of the Davidson Prize will also work with Hayes Davidson
The decided winner will go through communication workshops with Hayes Davidson for developing storyline and visual assets to help prepare for the final judging stage.
The Davidson Prize is intended to develop imaginative ideas in multidisciplinary teams, and now is intended to help work towards the 1.5m home target the government has set.
This year’s brief tasked teams with choosing a community of 300 homes in the UK, and developing housing solutions in urban, suburban, and protected rural sites.
The three finalists are:
- Ash Sakula with Human Nature: 1 House, 2 Homes… make a neighbourhood
- Clifton Emery Design, Nudge Community Builders, Millfields Trust, Plymouth Energy Community, Devon and Cornwall Planning Consultants: 300 Homes within a Union Street Mile
- FLOC, MAZi, Hyem, Stef Leach, Broaden, Thurston Illustration, SHED, Artis, Henna Asikainen: Positive Disturbance – Realising Brownfield Potential
The winners will be announced in June
The Davidson Prize 2025 winner will be announced on 10 June at the Heatherwick Studio Making House during the London Festival of Architecture. The festival will also see the winner of the Davidon People’s Choice Prize.
In all, the winning team will receive £10,000 and a week of Hayes Davidson’s support in engaging key UK housing decision makers.
Jonathan Falkingham, 2025 judge and founder and director of Urban Splash, said: “We were looking for the exciting communication of bold and do-able ideas around delivering new homes and communities. It was a tough call selecting from a brilliant longlist of 16 diverse and imaginative concepts but our three finalists really nailed this year’s brief. I can’t wait to see how the finalists develop their proposals in the next competition stage.”
Lucy Watson, 2025 judge and commissioning editor for house & home at the Financial Times, said: “It was a challenge choosing the three finalists from the longlist but we felt the chosen three teams proposed solutions that were well thought out and contextual in their approach, whilst also providing a framework to be replicated across the country. It was very inspiring to see the thought and care put in by the teams to understand their community and its needs through collaboration with local organisations and public outreach. I look forward to delving deeper into their submissions at the next judging session.”
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