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I have always loved brightly colored murals in the lav. This one in Tucson, AZ was especially great with various desert scenes:
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Pee in an incredibly detailed flower. I want a variation on this one, done as a pitcher plant.
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The quality of the facilities in Australia was generally high, but this public loo was exceptional.
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Public loo at Darling Harbour, Sydney (1/5):
The entrance to a rather spectacular public loo. The tiles hint at the delights to come. |
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I encounted a couple of interesting loos during my recent trip to Australia. This unusual example is at Jenolan Caves, a couple of hours from Sydney. In fact, if you follow the link, this loo is situated underneath the enormous natural arch shown at the top right of the web page, close to the entrance to the Lucas cave. The imaginative siting of this loo, and the way they managed to fit in a third cubicle, are the major attractions here. They're otherwise pretty basic, but what do you expect for a cave?
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Last week, I was in London with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) autopope for the Arthur C. Clarke Awards presentation. He didn't win, but I got my prize in the loos, where I was greeted by this magnificent hand-washing facility:
The light changes colour too.
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Tchai-Ovna is a tea house and vegetarian café in Glasgow. maleficent took me there to escape from the Eastercon. Imagine my surprise when I went to powder my nose...
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Tchai-Ovna 01
The loos at this delightful and idiosyncratic tea house have been painted with a Heath Robinson style tea making machine around the walls. |
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I spotted this blue plastic toilet earlier this year and photographed it because I'd never seen one quite like that before. Totnes, UK.
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The art on the doors of the toilet cubicles at London's Design Museum are pictures of famous designers.
Here's Buckminster Fuller, sans geodesic dome...
London, November 2005
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Oct. 25th, 2005 @ 06:03 pm
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God knows where this is, but I just had to swipe it off ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) kittenfarts:
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Otherwise unremarkable, the ladies restroom in the Chicken rotisserie, Pasadena has this charming mosaic chicken table to put your bag down on.
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The toilets at Original Joe's in San Jose aren't that striking inside - the main attraction is a line of marble tiles around the wall at waist height (see below). But the doors into the restrooms have these delightful classical busts. The doors aren't as thick as they look - the niches just stick out at the back!
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Los Angeles PDC 2005; the men may be queing down the hall but the ladies are empty . . .
While we usually concentrate on more up-market loos, these make a feature of perspective. The curved wall into the loo is also carpeted!
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This is from the ladies' at La Choza Restaurant in Santa Fe, NM. The ribbons they are dancing with continue around the left-side wall. Another colorful painting adorns the right. I just had to take a picture!
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Worryingly, the number of public toilets across the UK has fallen by a third in five years. Public toilets are a discretionary service which councils are under no obligation to provide. Local authorities have closed more than 180 public toilet blocks across the North East and Cumbria in the last 10 years. It's cost: the cost of making them accessible to the disabled, the cost of keeping them clean and safe and graffiti free. While lav_reviews doesn't usually concentrate on run-of-the-mill loos, it's a worrying thought that they might not be run-of-the-mill if there aren't any.
The British Toilet Association campaigns for more public loos and it has a Toilet Charter.
Adequate directions to the toilets Proper signage Adequate facilities for female toilet users Hot and cold running water to wash basins Provision for hand drying Lockable toilet tissue dispensers Sanitary disposal units Fully equipped access toilets Properly equipped baby change facilities Effective cleaning regime
And I guess we need to add 'open'.
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When they re-opened the loos under Oxford Circus "guests enjoyed a champagne reception under Oxford Circus, as a four-piece orchestra played." Champagne, cantatas - and CCTV: the ideal loo. And from the photo, guests using the facilities while the waitrons distributed the bubbly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4564921.stm
Aug. 18th, 2005 @ 08:32 pm
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I'd like to suggest that we start rating reviewed lavs, perhaps on a scale of one to five flushes.
one flush - adequate - "flush in the pan"
two flushes - acceptable
three flushes - pleasant or quirky
four flushes - good facilities
five flushes - excellent facilities, design and decor - "flushed with success"
comments please? ;-)
Aug. 12th, 2005 @ 07:45 pm
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In the walls of the castle above Lisbon...
Aug. 12th, 2005 @ 05:15 pm
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A public toilets in Otorohanga, New Zealand. But why do the ladies get all the delicate terms?
Aug. 11th, 2005 @ 07:42 pm
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The Hospital in Covent Garden is one of the city's trendier nightspots. As such, it's also a common place for day-time press conferences, as it's one of the few places in the city with screening rooms.
It's also one of the few places in the city with Kama Sutra themed toilets. The wallpaper in some of the gents cubicles contains scenes from the famous erotic work. It's a touch that raises the fairly average cubicles into the realm of the inspired - especially when the rest of the toilets are tiled in a rather putrid shade of green...
Here's a small sample of the wallpaper:
  
Aug. 11th, 2005 @ 06:33 pm
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