page_title: Hundertwasser Toilets
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Hundertwasser Toilets / Description
caption_attribution_description: Hundertwasser Toilets, Kawakawa - interior. The famous Austrian artist and eco-architect Friedensreich Hundertwassert designed these toilets for the NZ city of Kawakawa.
context_page_description: The Hundertwasser Toilets is a public toilet located at 60 Gillies Street, the main street of the town of Kawakawa in northern New Zealand. The structure was completed in 1999 and named after the architect and visual artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who conceived and designed the project. It is one of the few toilet blocks on Planet Earth seen both as an international work of art and a tourist attraction in its own right.
context_section_description: The toilet facility was designed by the reclusive Austrian and New Zealand artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who lived near Kawakawa from 1975 until his death in 2000, aged 71. The decorative toilet block is the only project designed by Hundertwasser in the 
  Southern Hemisphere and the artist's last project completed within his lifetime. The style is typical Hundertwasser, with wavy lines, irregular ceramic tiles, integrated small sculptures, coloured glass and a live tree incorporated into the architecture.
  Recycled materials, including the community's spent glass bottles and bricks from a former Bank of New Zealand branch, were used throughout. Hundertwasser requested that any vegetation removed for construction should be replanted on the building's green roof. The toilet was opened in 1999. Functionally, it does not differ from other 'normal' public toilets.  There are separate men's and women's areas, but both sides are sometimes viewed by the more curious visitor after giving suitable advance warning.
caption: Interior of Hundertwasser toilet
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