Brief asked for teams to propose ways to ensure quality in governments 1.5 million homes targetElephant in the City - Morris+Company, Hub, Stantec_Hydrock, Studio Knight Stokoe Permitted Development +Ash Sakula with Human Nature One House, Two Homes... make a neighbourhoodRCKa Beta Boroughs - How Could Better Data Help Us Beat the Housing Crisis_A IS FOR ARCHITECTURE, WSP, Spacehub F.U.N.N.E.LElephant in the City - Morris+Company, Hub, Stantec_Hydrock, Studio Knight Stokoe Permitted Development +James Waddington with Nathaniel Welham and WSP The Rail Belt1/6show captionThe longlist for this years Davidson Prize has been announced, featuring teams led by Morris & Co, Ash Sakula and rCKA.The fifth annual competition, which is run by the Alan Davidson Foundation, has asked for innovative solutions to the UKs housing crisis and fresh approaches for how to use land.Proposals to build on railway lands, high street infills, new concepts for brownfield regeneration and innovative models for housing in protected rural landscapes are among 16 longlisted entries.The projects were selected by a panel chaired by architect and planner Pooja Agrawal of Public Practice and comprising urban designer and researcher Akil Scafe-Smith of Resolve Collective, developer Jonathan Falkingham of Urban Splash, architect Jonny Buckland of Studio Saar and journalist Lucy Watson of the Financial Times.This years brief invited multidisciplinary teams including architects to address issues arising from the UK governments ambitious target of building 1.5 million homes over the next five years.It asks where these homes could be built and how quality as well as quantity can be ensured as part of a set of policies which have loosened planning rules and established mandatory housing targets for local authorities.The panel said the longlist was underpinned by some radical ideas around the policies, finance and funding systems of housebuilding, including concepts for combating urban sprawl through densification and infill solutions, new housing typologies, and innovative retrofit solutions.Agrawal, chief executive of Public Practice, said: One of the great things about The Davidson Prize is the way it brings together multidisciplinary teams. For me thats not just about bringing together different professional skill sets, but also peoples lived experiences. After all housing is about peoples homesThe range of proposals we assessed were varied, tackling finance, typologies and planning. There were so many interesting ideas to learn from and collectively they provided a vision for what the future of housing in the UK could look like.The longlisted and finalist projects will be showcased during the London Festival of Architecture on 10 June2025 at Heatherwick Studios London headquarters, Making House in Kings Cross, when the winner of the 10,000 Davidson Prize will be announced.The winning team will also receive a week of Hayes Davidsons support to help them engage key decision makers in UK housing with their concept, to take it further and help them realise their ideas.The public is invited to vote for its favourite project from the longlist here until 28 April 2025 at 18:00 GMT. The Peoples Choice winner will be announced during the award ceremony in June.The 2025 Davidson Prize longlist:A IS FOR ARCHITECTURE, WSP, Spacehub - F.U.N.N.E.LAOMD, Edit, Periscope, Dion Barrett, Ruth Lang - Hardworking LandscapesAsh Sakula with Human Nature - 1 House, 2 Homes make a neighbourhoodCARD Projects, PATCH Collective, and System of Systems - WearWorkClifton Emery Design, Nudge Community Builders, Millfields Trust, Plymouth Energy Community, Devon and Cornwall Planning Consultants - 300 Homes within a Union Street Miledaab Design Architects, HomeGrown Plus, Expedition Engineering, Robert Bird Group, ThirdRevolution Projects, Atelier Crescendo - Between the Lines - Living with IndustryElephant in the City Morris+Company, Hub, Stantec / Hydrock, Studio Knight Stokoe - PermittedDevelopment +FLOC, MAZi, Hyem, Stef Leach, Broaden, Thurston Illustration, SHED, Artis, Henna Asikainen - Positive Disturbance Realising Brownfield PotentialHarper Perry, Urban Design Works and Studio Mint with North East Combined Authority and NEXUSTyne and Wear Metro - MetrolandJames Waddington with Nathaniel Welham and WSP - The Rail BeltRCKa - Beta Boroughs How Could Better Data Help Us Beat the Housing Crisis?Studio Woodroffe Papa Ltd, Lawrence Barth, Almitra Roosevelt and Anagha Othalur of AA Housing And Urbanism, Whitby Wood, XCO2 - Kommuna PalaceThe Place Bureau - Forever Island A New Model for Young IslandersUniversity of West England Students - Growing PlacesWilliam Burgess & Oliver Burgess - Living in the LandscapeA community for all agesYolande Barnes Consulting & Space Syntax - RUN!