Cedric Price, ‘Fun Palace’ 1960-1. Conceived (with theatrical impresario Joan Littlewood) as a popular educational and recreational facility with almost infinite possibilities of reconfiguration, the Fun Palace was to stand in the East London industrial zone of the Lea Valley. It was never built (instead we have the more exclusive Olympic site, with its far less adaptable – and therefore much more short-termist – architecture), but it did have a decisive influence on the design of the Pompidou Centre