Trafalgar Square sculpture to be unveiled next month

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The coloured glass sculpture, Model For A Hotel 2007, by Thomas Schütte, will be erected on 7 November, replacing Marc Quinn's marble statue Alison Lapper Pregnant. The new sculpture was meant to be put up in April but the firm working on the project went bust.

Mayor Ken Livingstone was forced to allocate extra public money - believed to be £153,000. The project, originally named Hotel For The Birds, is an architectural model of a 21-storey building, which will collect and reflect the light.

Schütte, 53, hopes the artwork will poke fun at "obscene" architects who seek to dominate public spaces with faceless, imposing designs and will also provide a home for the few pigeons that have survived the Mayor's Trafalgar Square birdfeeding ban.

The work was chosen by a panel of experts in 2004 after a major consultation about the fourth plinth, regarded as Britain's most significant public art space.