Ibrahim Returns to the Judges’ Panel for the British Homes Awards 2025

Ibrahim has been invited back to the judging panel for the British Homes Awards 2025. A significant recognition, building on his participation as a judge during the 2024 Awards. Having served on the judging panel in 2024, Ibrahim Buhari brings first-hand experience of the Awards’ commitment to celebrating outstanding British residential design. His reappointment recognises his deep understanding of the values the Awards champion: conceptual clarity, high-quality materials, craftsmanship, and socially responsible architecture.

As a Senior Urban Design Officer at the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, he has shaped policy and design review frameworks that influence how new homes engage with broad urban contexts and climate considerations. He also leads his private practice, Ibrahim Buhari Architects, where architectural clarity, creative concept and thoughtful, sensory-rich experiences are central to each project. His combined experience in public-sector planning and private-sector design gives him a broad lens through which to assess innovation, feasibility, and long-term value.

Reflecting on his involvement in previous years, Ibrahim has emphasized his desire to see entries that:

• Elevate domestic design to create meaningful, lasting environments.

• Demonstrate strong contextual awareness, both physical and environmental.

• Offer solutions that respond to the climate emergency, showing resilience, adaptability, sustainability, and future-proofing

Ibrahim joins a distinguished panel that will soon launch its shortlist and later in the year and select winners that will set benchmarks for excellence across British housing design. Under the oversight of Chair of Judges Jay Morton (Director at Bell Phillips), the panel will evaluate entries across their contextual, aesthetic and environmental merit.

We look forward to seeing which projects emerge victorious in 2025 and how the Awards continue to spotlight innovation, sustainability and design excellence across the UK.