The Davidson Prize

Architecture ideas prize in memory of Alan Davidson.

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THE 2025 BRIEF! 🗒️ 📣

Announcing the brief for the fifth year of The Davidson Prize ‘Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes’. Full description, criteria and requirements are listed on our website now!

https://t.co/KQOnrRVIpz

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2025 team registrations are NOW OPEN! The theme for The Davidson Prize is: Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes.

Register and begin assembling your multidisciplinary team today! 🙌
https://t.co/LO9K6KMh7u

[SAVE Britain's Heritage @SAVEtoReuse]

👏Fantastic to see creative ideas for reusing Taunton's old Debenhams as housing 🥇win the prestigious £10k @DavidsonPrize👇
This year's theme? Rethinking Home– Adapt & Reuse!♻️
SAVE has been opposing wasteful plans to demolish this building, with @C20Society & @HistoricEngland🏗️

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WINNER | Apartment Store by Studio Saar, Landstory, Stories, BAS, Megaphone Creative.

#TheDavidsonPrize https://t.co/099CMk8Lha

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CHAIR'S HIGHLY COMMENDED | The Pylon Network: A Toolkit for Off-Grid Living by GROUND Practice Tropisms / German Nieva, Yasmin Lennon-Chong, Elena Tamosiunaite.

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[Big Issue @BigIssue]

The idea of transforming the old Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood Airport into a housing estate has been shortlisted for the @DavidsonPrize. 🏆

@LGeraghty23 spoke to the minds behind it to see if the idea can take off or if there is too much baggage. ✈️⬇️

https://t.co/SPyWYl40rA

[Archinect @archinect]

These three shortlisted adaptive-reuse proposals will vie for the 2024 Davidson Prize

https://t.co/6ACCAQ2Tq4

@DavidsonPrize #AdaptiveReuse

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"I am really inspired by Ghanaian spatial design studio @limboaccra’s long term research on adaptive reuse." Alice Finney, ELLE Decoration UK, speaks to the reuse work that she admires. https://t.co/VUiLPyTvDs

Images courtesy of @limboaccra
Digital Design by Thomas McLucas

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The 2024 Davidson Prize longlist explores the theme ‘Rethinking Home — Adapt and Reuse’

https://t.co/TWVAee7mUT

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📣 Longlist Announcement! 📣 Presenting the selected entries for #TheDavidsonPrize 2024

Every entry is eligible to win the People's Choice Prize. Browse the longlist on our website and cast your vote: https://t.co/TB0PSrx7RO

With thanks to our Headline Sponsor @totalsynergy

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The judging begins! This week our judges reviwed the excellent range of ideas put forward for Rethinking Home – Adapt and Reuse, and decide upon the 2024 longlist.

Next week we will be announcing the full lineup! #TheDavidsonPrize

With great thanks to our hosts @AHMMArchitects

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"It feels comforting for a building to communicate its life through its scars and imperfections, maybe this is because it's something that we can all relate to in our lives."

Read our Q&A with judge Alexander Turner @studio_mutt

https://t.co/ub4MM5ppy5

Photo: Atelier KANAL

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The final day for entries. We are so excited to review this years ideas for Rethinking Home – Adapt and Reuse.

See our website for another look at the judging criteria. Entry is free! https://t.co/KQOnrRVIpz

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You can get a lot done in seven days!

Being part of The Davidson Prize is just one week away. See our website for another look at the judging criteria. This year submission requirements are image focused.

Entry is free!

https://t.co/KQOnrRVIpz

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DEADLINE EXTENDED. The Davidson Prize submission deadline has been extended by one week!

You now have until Thursday 07 March 2024 at 18:00 GMT to send in your Stage 1 submissions.

Good luck to all entrants!

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With the submission date one week away, we caught up with our judges to hear their thoughts on adaptive reuse, sustainable building materials and what they are hoping to see in this year's submissions.

Read their full interviews here ­–> https://t.co/hjMAGTNPQT

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Teams MUST be 🌟 multidisciplinary 🌟 to qualify for @thedavidsonprize

If you registered and are looking to grow your team, or want to join an existing team – REPLY HERE and find each other!

The submissions deadline for teams is 18:00 GMT on Thursday 29 February 2024.

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS | Let’s get very specific about the language we use and the range of approaches that make up a circular economy

Read the full brief for ‘Rethinking Home – Adapt and Reuse’: https://t.co/d3fIwiImY7

Submissions deadline: 18:00 GMT on Thursday 29 February 2024.

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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS | Stage 1 submissions should be a landscape ‘marketing billboard’ poster selling your design concept. Your poster should speak for itself, using minimal wording in the form of captions and titles.

The full brief: https://t.co/d3fIwiImY7

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THE 2024 BRIEF | 🔑 Key considerations:

– Creates new homes while reducing carbon impact
– Reimagines living environments for a sustainable future
– Integrates recycling, upcycling and/or biomaterials
– Makes a case for a new kind of ideal home

https://t.co/d3fIwiImY7