Sam Jacob Studio’s mixed-use development in the Hoxton Street conservation area retains the façade of the Victorian pub originally on the site while creating ground-floor community facilities with an apartment above.

The four-storey scheme will restore the last remaining piece of what was once a terraced street razed to the ground by bombing during the Second World War.

The new block is expressed as a curved wall punctured by diamond-shaped window openings. — Architects' Journal

You wait years for a new bridge across the Thames then three come along at once. Joining the controversial garden bridge and a plan for a crossing between Nine Elms and Pimlico, both of which have fierce opponents, comes a proposal unveiled today for a new pedestrian and cycle bridge between Rotherhithe and the Isle of Dogs in east London that hasn’t aroused a single objection – yet.

There’s a good reason why: of the three plans, it makes by far the most sense. — Oliver Wainwright