Architecture Update:: Southern prospects

'DESIGNS on the Future', an exhibition opening at the Royal Festival Hall this week, charts the changing face of London's South Bank and looks at people, events, buildings, businesses, and surveys the array of plans and schemes inspired by architects and planners over 200 years. Interactive film displays, photographs, drawings and models show many of the current plans. As well as the South Bank's own competition to select an architect to transform its buildings, there is the British Film Institute's plans to build an Imax cinema, the County Hall development (from seat of London government to hotel and leisure centre), the Oxo Tower refurbishment and the recently launched pounds 35m improvement plan by the South Bank Employers' Group.

'Designs on the Future: Architecture on the South Bank', Royal Festival Hall, until 12 June, admission free.