Outdoor urinals cause uproar after being installed on Paris streets
Minimal, open-air eco urinals by design studio Faltazi have been placed across central Paris, prompting protests from local residents and businesses. More
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Yellow Spot is a portable protest toilet for women
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Elisa Otañez has created a bight yellow, mobile toilet as a protest against the lack of public facilities for women in The Netherlands. More
Stalled! initiative provides open-source prototypes for inclusive public restrooms
A set of guidelines for designing inclusive bathrooms for public buildings, created to address an "urgent social justice issue", is now available online. More
Grohe releases Cube collection of ceramic bathroom products
Dezeen promotion: German brand Grohe has launched its latest collection of ceramic bathroom products, featuring minimalist and "urban-inspired" shapes. More
Morfeus Arkitekter completes mirrored toilet block on Norwegian coastline
Drivers cruising along one of Norway's Scenic Routes can take a break at this mirrored toilet that reflects the surrounding landscape. More
Lauren Lee's Warm Wall is designed to alleviate women's menstrual cramps
Industrial designer Lauren Lee has designed a heated wall for public toilets, which provides women with a communal place to alleviate their menstrual cramps. More
HZA adds wave-shaped toilet facility to scenic Norwegian lay-by
The latest architectural addition to Norway's scenic tourist routes is a rest area featuring a toilet facility that sweeps upwards from a poured-concrete viewing terrace. More
Deep-green tiles and geometric entrances create distinctive toilets for Portuguese graveyard
Portuguese architecture studio M2 Senos has completed a new public toilet for a cemetery in the country's Ílhavo municipality, taking the graveyard's verdant grounds and marble headstones as cues for the design. More
Nendo designs transportable toilet for natural disaster victims
Nendo has designed a temporary toilet for those affected by natural disasters, which can be assembled using found materials and completely dismantled for easy transportation. More
RE+D embeds masonry-clad bathrooms into Mexican ranch hillside
This public bathroom for a ranch in Mexico is built into the sloped terrain and covered by a prominent stepped roof, which is used for hosting events. More
Fortunen completes toilet block with views of a Norwegian waterfall
Visitors to Norway's Skjervsfossen waterfall can watch the Storelvi river rush by through a glazed floor panel in the restrooms of this service building, which is clad in local stone to accentuate its connection with the surrounding landscape. More
Studio Makkink & Bey's wheelie-bin toilet harvests human waste for electricity and compost
Aiming to change our attitudes towards our own excrement, Dutch design duo Makkink & Bey have created a toilet that collects poo and wee before turning it into compost. More
Invisible Studio designs composting toilet for its own woodland workshop
This long-drop composting toilet by Invisible Studio provides facilities for the practice's self-built woodland workshop, and was built using offcuts from that project. More
Rohan Chavan's public toilets aim to provide a safe socialising space for women
These public toilets by architect Rohan Chavan are built around an old tree in the Indian city Thane, and include a hot-pink sitting area where women can socialise (+ slideshow). More
Trail Restroom by Miro Rivera Architects is a public toilet with weathering steel walls
Pre-rusted steel plates are arranged in a spiral to form the walls of this public toilet created by Miro Rivera Architects in a park in Austin, Texas (+ slideshow). More
Kubo Tsushima Architects develops an alternative to Japan's "dismal" public toilets
Kubo Tsushima Architects gave a curved form to this public toilet in Japanese town of Nakanojo, to avoid creating spaces for dust to collect or spiders to lurk (+ slideshow). More
Today we like: toilets
A toilet block in Narita airport designed by Klein Dytham Architecture has been named Japan's toilet of the year. We're revisiting some of the best loo designs from our archives, including a pink marble pissoir in a Zurich car park, public toilets shaped like headless dinosaurs, and straw-bale urinals for music festivals (pictured). Explore more toilet design »
Japan's "toilet of the year" by Klein Dytham Architecture seems to offer no privacy
People appear to be dancing, jumping and skating behind the seemingly translucent facade of this public restroom, which has just been named Japanese Toilet of the Year (+ movie). More
Rural Urban Framework uses mirrored tiles to camouflage toilets at Mulan Primary School
Hong Kong studio Rural Urban Framework covered this new primary school toilet block in mirrored tiles so that it reflects its surroundings, helping to camouflage the building (+ slideshow). More
Bureau A installs pink marble urinal at Zurich car park
Zurich citizens can now relieve themselves at a pink marble public pissoir, installed at an open-air car park by local architecture firm Bureau A (+ slideshow). More