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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 »
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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
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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
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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
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Blue Diversion Toilet aims to improve sanitation with built-in filtration system
Austrian design firm EOOS and water research institute Eawag hope to improve sanitation levels in areas of extreme poverty with a mobile toilet that contains its own water filtration system (+ movie). More
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Toigetation by H&P Architects is a bamboo toilet block covered in plants
A bamboo framework filled with plants surrounds the brick core of this sanitation facility designed by H&P Architects for a school in rural Vietnam (+ slideshow). More
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Fox Johnston enlivens Sydney beachfront with Cook Park Amenities
Australian studio Fox Johnston has completed three curved toilet and shower blocks as part of an effort to rejuvenate a Sydney beachfront (+ slideshow). More
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To celebrate World Toilet Day, here are Dezeen's favourite unusual toilets
As it's World Toilet Day, here's a selection of our favourite toilets from the Dezeen archives, including a straw-bale urinal for rock festivals and a pissoir that straps to a tree. More
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Golden public toilet by Gort Scott aims to "inspire confidence"
This golden public toilet in Wembley, London aims to evoke the days when lavatories were "civic buildings that aimed to inspire confidence and pride in a place". More
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Easehouse for Singeldingen Foundation by Lagado Architects
Dutch firm Lagado Architects have designed a temporary public toilet block with wide open sections in the roof so users can sit on the toilet and look up into the sky (+ slideshow). More
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Hut with the Arc Wall by Tato Architects
These public toilets in Japan by Tato Architects comprise a single curved wall sheltered beneath a gabled roof (+ slideshow). More
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L'Uritonnoir by Faltazi
This outdoor urinal by French design studio Faltazi slots into a straw bale to recycle pee from festivalgoers into compost. More
