Loft in Space, Hogarth Architects

What do you do when you have designated a historic building and can not disrupt the walls and ceiling? Hogarth architects designed as a cabinet "to provide all the functions needed by a man in town" at Queen's Gate Terrace in South Kensington, London.

"The space is located on the first floor of a building," said Hamish project architect Dezeen Herford. "The fire surround and cornice, by law, should remain."

Herford said: "The existing space was divided into three rooms with a false ceiling while the new design is intended to restore the area to its original proportions, which would have been like a room."

Now it is certainly the staircase of the week.

Photographs by James Brittain. Dezeen