Architect Will Alsop has reverted to his most basic creative urge – designing playful, child-friendly buildings.


Kinder surprise
Kinder surprise


Completed this month at Harlesden, north London, is Alsop’s £2.3m nursery with rainbow colours and extraordinary shapes and materials. The Fawood Children’s Centre forms part of the redevelopment of the notorious system-built concrete Stonebridge Estate by the local housing action trust, with Durkan Construction as design-and-build contractor, Adams Kara Taylor as structural engineer and Fulcrum Consulting as services engineer.