South Norwood Hill Children’s Centre by Erect Architecture

The jaunty triple gable end of the building greets the approach from the south-east.

Erect Architecture’s joyful reinvention of a nursery building in South Norwood, London, has a lot to teach us about working with existing buildings and systems, says Oliver Wainwright

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