Charles Holland Architects wins Davidson Prize 2022 – ADC

Charles Holland Architects, together with research charity the Quality of Life Foundation, artist Verity-Jane Keefe and urbanist and designer Joseph Zeal-Henry of Sound Advice, is the recipient of the £10,000 Davidson Prize. 

The team was selected as the winner from a shortlist of three proposals considering this year’s theme Co-Living – A New Future? The runners up were Communiversity by Moebius Studio and It Takes a Village by Child-Hood. Earlier this year 14 projects were longlisted for the award. 

The Davidson Prize was set up last year in honour of the late architect and visualiser Alan Davidson, who died from Motor Neurone Disease in 2018. He set up the Alan Davidson Foundation to help those living with Motor Neurone Disease, but also to support architecture initiatives – like The Davidson Prize ideas competition set up in his memory.

The inaugural award – themed around impact of the pandemic on how we live and work – went to Homeliving, a concept based on the restorative qualities of “forest-bathing”. The concept was developed by a team comprising Alice Britton and Eleanor Greenleaf of creative studio Squint/Opera, alongside Agnieszka Glowacka, Tracy Shum, Agnete Winsnes Astrup, Janicke Sæther from the practice Haptic Architects, the poet LionHeart, Will Worsley of sound studio Coda to Coda and interdisciplinary designer Yaoyao Meng.