No. 3 in Architizer’s ’30 Best Architecture and Design Firms in Spain’ ranking (2025)

ÁBATON is third in Architizer's ranking of the thirty best architecture and design firms in Spain.

Architizer, the New York platform that runs the A+Awards, publishes every year a ranking of the thirty best architecture and design firms in each country. It is not decided by a jury: it is calculated from what each practice has achieved on the platform itself, starting with the A+Awards won since 2013 and followed by the projects selected by the editorial team and those published.

In the April 2025 edition, ÁBATON ranked third in Spain. Architizer itself explains this with two figures: four A+Awards and eleven projects featured by its editorial team. In the May 2026 update the studio keeps that position.

Behind those figures there are specific works. The Estate in Extremadura, an off-grid country house built on a former cattle shed, received the jury award in the sustainability category at the first A+Awards. The Portable Home ÁPH80 won two public awards in 2014, and the Comprehensive Renovation in Alcalá won both prizes, jury and public, in the apartment category in 2017.

A ranking of this kind is no substitute for criticism, but it has the value of what accumulates: it does not reward an isolated project, but a trajectory of more than a decade before the same international audience.

Source: Architizer, ’30 Best Architecture and Design Firms in Spain’.