Alo Japanhttps://www.alojapan.com/1251693/bog-standard-tokyos-spectacular-public-toilets-in-pictures-art-and-design/ Bog standard? Tokyo’s spectacular public toilets – in pictures | Art and design #ArtAndDesign #AwardsAndPrizes #culture #Japan #news #photography #SonyWorldPhotographyAwards #Tokyo #TokyoNews #東京 #東京都 Public toilets are rarely thought of fondly – that is unless you’re talking about those in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. Commissioned in 2019, creatives including renowned architects Shigeru Ban and the late Fumihiko Maki designed 17 beautiful, func…
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Public toilets are rarely thought of fondly – that is unless you’re talking about those in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. Commissioned in 2019, creatives including renowned architects Shigeru Ban and the late Fumihiko Maki designed 17 beautiful, functional, meticulously clean public toilets, some of which featured in Wim Wenders’s 2023 film Perfect Days. Hong Kong-based photographer Ulana Switucha came across the toilets, each unique, while working on a project about Japanese architecture in 2023, and went back to photograph them the following year. “These structures are works of art,” she says. “They shine as beacons in their urban setting and demonstrate
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