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 about To celebrate World Toilet Day, here are Dezeen's favourite unusual toilets
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 about Golden public toilet by Gort Scott aims to "inspire confidence"
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 about Easehouse for Singeldingen Foundation by Lagado Architects
These public toilets in Japan by Tato Architects comprise a single curved wall sheltered beneath a gabled roof (+ slideshow). More about Hut with the Arc Wall by Tato Architects
This outdoor urinal by French design studio Faltazi slots into a straw bale to recycle pee from festivalgoers into compost. More about L'Uritonnoir by Faltazi
New Zealand architects Studio Pacific have created public toilets shaped like headless dinosaurs in Wellington (+ slideshow). More about Kumutoto Toilets by Studio Pacific
This small rusty cabin designed by Oslo architects Manthey Kula provides public toilets along one of Norway’s tourist routes. More about Roadside Reststop Akkarvikodden by Manthey Kula Architects
German studio TULP Design have designed new loos for Munich based advertising agency Webguerillas that encourage doodlers, narcissists and greedy toilet-roll users. More about Webguerillas Toilets by TULP Design
Here's another update from the cutting edge of toilet design: Copenhagen studio UiWE are working on urinals for women. More about Pollee by UiWE
Since our story on the P-Tree urinal that straps to a tree (above, bottom left) was so popular, this month's top ten is all about toilets. More about Dezeen’s top ten: toilets
Unable to prevent revellers urinating against their trees, Roskilde Festival in Denmark installed tree-mounted urinals by Dutch designers Aandeboom. More about P-Tree by Aandeboom
This colourful series of public toilets recently completed by Japanese architects Future Studio in Hiroshima have been designed to resemble origami cranes. More about Hiroshima Park Restrooms by Future Studio
Maltese studio Chris Briffa Architects have renovated a public toilet in Valletta, Malta, inspired by the facility's location in what was once a red-light district. More about Royal Flush by Chris Briffa Architects
Milan 2010: Japanese bathroom brand Toto launched a toilet by Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni in Milan last week. More about Giovannoni Washlet by Stefano Giovannoni for Toto
Milan designers Gabriele and Oscar Buratti have collaborated with bathroom brand Roca to create a combined toilet and wash basin, where waste water from the sink is used to fill the toilet cistern. More about W+W by Gabriele and Oscar Buratti with Roca Innovation Lab
Tokyo studio Shuichiro Yoshida Architects have completed a tall narrow toilet block in Chikusei City, Japan. More about Tokinokura Lavatories Shimodate by Shuichiro Yoshida Architects
Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a residence in Nagoya, Japan, featuring a room dedicated to plants. More about House in Nagoya by Suppose Design Office
Designer Anders Wilhelmson, in collaboration with Camilla Wirseen and Peter Thuvander, has developed the Peepoo bag - a single-use, disposable toilet bag intended to improve sanitary conditions in developing nations. More about Peepoo bag by Anders Wilhelmson
Ukrainian architects 2-B-2 have sent us images of a toilet called Mrs Hudson. More about Mrs Hudson by 2-B-2
Here's another building with a pointy prow, but this time it's a public toilet. Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these pictures of the new facilities in Gravesend in Kent, England, by Plastik Architects. More about Gravesend public toilets by Plastik Architects