This week is the last week of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Its architecture section features the design of the new building where the Florence Nightingale pub and concrete monstrosity York House used to be on the roundabout at the bottom of Westminster Bridge. What’s being built in their place is a “glistening, crystalline 18-storey landmark office building” in an area already ripe with redevelopment – there are three relatively new Park Plaza hotels nearby including two on the roundabout, plus Foster & Partners’ new towers on Albert Embankment.

In the Summer Exhibition you can also see some of the alternative designs that were considered for York House, but this was the chosen design: