Best of Houzz 2016, Design

In 2016 ÁBATON received its first Best of Houzz badge for Design, the start of a series the Houzz community has renewed over the years.

ÁBATON’s first Best of Houzz badge came in 2016, in the Design category, and opened a series that the studio has sustained for almost a decade.

Houzz is an international platform for architecture, interior design and decoration on which millions of people save images of homes they would like to live in. Every year it gives the Best of Houzz badge in the Design category to the professionals whose work has been most saved and shared by its community during the previous year. It is not decided by a jury, but by the accumulated attention of people looking for ideas for their own homes.

Among the works the studio had published by then, the Estate in Extremadura stood out: a country house built on a former stone cattle shed, off the grid, which had already received the jury award for sustainability at Architizer’s A+Awards. Alongside it, houses and renovations in Madrid shared the same language: fine materials, natural light, a direct relationship with the landscape.

The badge recurs throughout ÁBATON’s trajectory: the studio’s Houzz profile gathers the Design badges for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026. More than an isolated award, it reflects a sustained interest over time in a way of understanding the home.

Source: ÁBATON’s profile on Houzz and the official guide to the Best of Houzz programme.