The image which stocks in my mind from the Chambers conference is one from the Yale Center for British Art of Somerset House by Jean Louis Desprez:-

Desprez was a French neoclassical architect who was employed by Gustav III as a scene painter for the newly established Stockholm opera house. It shows so clearly how Chambers envisaged Somerset House as having a monumental presence on the river, now hard to appreciate since the construction of the Embankment.

We should treasure Somerset House instead of allowing Make to construct a monster new development on the other side of the river, as if the French allowed a version of La Defence on the banks of the Seine opposite the Louvre.