Soft & SturdyArchmongers reworks a terrace house into a materially inventive residence for a studio founderByBridget Goldberg February 3, 2025Interiors, International (French+Tye)SHAREWalking out of Homerton train station in Londons Hackney neighborhood, one is immediately surrounded by blocks of postwar social housing. The East End borough, home to Homerton as well as Hoxton and Shoreditch, has many reputations: For over ten years, it has been a hipster paradise teeming with trendy cafes, galleries, converted studio flats, and glamorous houses, especially near Homertons Chatsworth Road. But as recently as the early 2000s, it was one of Londons roughest areas. A row of nondescript, 1970s split-level terrace houses occupies a block among this diverse mix, and one of these houses has been overhauled by local architect Johan Hybschmann for himself, his wife, and their son. Hybschmann runs a small practice calledArchmongersthat he founded with his university classmate Margaret Bursa in 2013. The two studied together at The Bartlett School of Architecture, at University College London, and spent a few years apart working at larger firms before teaming up. The name of our studio is a riff off fishmonger, like youre mongering for architecture, he toldAN Interior. We started our practice by doing our own houses quickly. Then we could show them. We were lucky enough to have been able to do that. The proof is in the pudding: the U.K.s design-led realtor Modern House has listed and sold five of their residential retrofits.Read more on aninteriormag.com. LondonResidential Architecture