The Davidson Prize Awards Ceremony & Drinks Reception

As part of the London Festival of Architecture 2025, The Davidson Prize presents an awards ceremony and drinks reception kindly hosted by Humanise at Making House Heatherwick Studio in King’s Cross to celebrate the longlisted, finalist and winning teams.

This year's submissions responded to the theme of ‘Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes', proposing innovative design solutions for housing of the future.

The 2025 judging panel was chaired by Pooja Agrawal of Public Practice with Jonny Buckland of Studio Saar, Jonathan Falkingham of Urban Splash, Akil Scafe-Smith of RESOLVE Collective and Lucy Watson of Financial Times.

The three finalists were chosen from a 16-strong longlist and were each given £5,000 and a workshop with Hayes Davidson to develop their proposals further. The 2025 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 Architects, Hyem, Stef Leach, Broaden, Thurston Illustration, SHED, Artis, Henna Asikainen Positive Disturbance – Realising Brownfield Potential

The longlisted and finalist entries will be showcased, and the winners of the £10,000 prize and the People's Choice Prize will be announced on the night.

18:00 - Arrival - Drinks and canapés served

18:45 - Speeches & awards ceremony

21:00 - Event ends

We look forward to seeing you there for an evening of celebrations!

The Davidson Prize is run by the Alan Davidson Foundation which was founded by the late architect and visualiser Alan Davidson. In 2012 Alan was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease and sadly lost his battle against the disease in 2018. Alan set up the Foundation with a view to helping others also afflicted by MND and to support collaboration in architecture, visualisation and design. A final wish was that his Foundation initiate a yearly architecture and communication prize. The dual purpose of the prize is to promote people-focused approaches to architecture and to celebrate innovative communication, visualisation, technology and art.

The event is free to attend, however donations to the Alan Davidson Foundation will be welcomed. The Foundation looks to support a wide range of causes linked to MND research, care and initiatives that benefit those with disabling neurological conditions.

For donations, please visit: www.justgiving.com/alan-davidson-foundation

If you have any questions or would like to find out more about The Davidson Prize, please contact The Davidson Prize team at [email protected]

The Davidson Prize is proud to partner with Humanise on the People's Choice Prize 2025. Humanise is a 10-year global campaign to ignite a public conversation about the outside of buildings with the aim of making cities more joyful and engaging.

The Davidson Prize is proud to partner with leading visualisation studio Hayes Davidson, who will provide expert creative consultation.

They have invites each of the three finalists to attend a workshop to help them visualise and communicate their design concepts.

The winner will also receive an additional week of Hayes Davidson's support to develop their winning concept to help them engage with key decision makers.