The Davidson Prize

Narinder Sagoo, Foster + Partners senior partner and art director and a judge of the inaugural Davidson Prize, talks to Hugh Pearman about some of the challenges behind the Home/Work – A New Future brief.

The pandemic is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink housing design, says Alison Brooks – one of the UK’s most acclaimed architects and a judge of the inaugural Davidson Prize.

To mark the launch of The Davidson Prize, we've gathered together six of our favourite home/work spaces to explore what makes them special. Designing a domestic space for home working is a more complex brief than simply specifying the right desk and chair...

Sonia Solicari is the Director of the Museum of the Home and a judge of the 2021 Davidson Prize. The Museum’s Stay Home project has been documenting and sharing personal pictures of people’s lives since the beginning of lockdown. After an extensive refurbishment, the Museum plans to reopen its doors in 2021...

From the Stirling Prize to the Manser Medal, British architecture has never been shy about accolades.
So when I was asked to help the Alan Davidson Foundation create a new architecture prize, I knew it had to be something special if it was to stand out from the crowd.

Thomas Heatherwick is one of the UK’s most prominent designers and the founder of Heatherwick Studio whose projects include the Olympic Cauldron, the Routemaster Bus and Google’s new headquarters in King’s Cross. He is a judge of the 2021 Davidson Prize...