{"id":34303,"date":"2025-04-20T01:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34303\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T01:14:11","slug":"bog-standard-tokyos-spectacular-public-toilets-in-pictures-art-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34303\/","title":{"rendered":"Bog standard? Tokyo\u2019s spectacular public toilets \u2013 in pictures | Art and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public toilets are rarely thought of fondly \u2013 that is unless you\u2019re talking about those in Tokyo\u2019s 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\u2019s 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. \u201cThese structures are works of art,\u201d she says. \u201cThey shine as beacons in their urban setting and demonstrate that public design can go beyond functionality to represent cultural and artistic value.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public toilets are rarely thought of fondly \u2013 that is unless you\u2019re talking about those in Tokyo\u2019s Shibuya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[16466,4021,4020,2767,2766,4022,77,2122,2249,16465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-34303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-and-design","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-awards-and-prizes","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-japan","16":"tag-photography","17":"tag-sony-world-photography-awards","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114367645174407597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}