• 54 Ivy Street by Sam Jacob: child’s play and anything but

    54 Ivy Street by Sam Jacob: child’s play and anything but
    The FAT co-founder has taken an old London pub and created a playschool with a house on top that’s as fun for architecture buffs as it is for the under-fivesThe Ivy Street Family Centre is a small charity in Hoxton, east London, that provides a playschool – an “oasis of warmth and fun”, the website says – for local under-fives. Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974) was a radical architect of early revolutionary Russia who built an astonishing house for himself in Moscow.

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