Studio Saar wins Davidson Prize for department-store housing concept

Architecture practice Studio Saar has won the Davidson Prize with Apartment Store, a concept exploring how the UK's vacant retail spaces can be repurposed as community-owned housing.
The Apartment Store model focuses specifically on how empty department stores can help tackle the country's shortage of homes while creating "buzzing circular economy hubs" that reinvigorate towns and cities.
To illustrate the idea, Studio Saar has applied the concept to a vacant Art Deco department store in Taunton