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MALL BATHROOM MAY BE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL TOILET

             Tucked away on the sixth floor of a Nanjing shopping mall is one of the fanciest, most impressive public bathrooms in the world. To some, it is the world’s most beautiful public bathroom.

 Designed by X+Living, a Shanghai-based architecture firm, the bathroom on the sixth floor of the Deji Plaza Shopping Mall in Nanjing, China, makes you feel like you have accidentally walked into a whimsical palace. That is not usually the feeling you get from most public bathrooms.

It starts out with a long corridor lined with plants growing out of the walls. This part of the bathroom was designed as “an immersive walk-through-a-garden experience,” but it is hard to focus on the green decor with dozens of giant lamps shining on you from above and light reflecting from the glossy floor.

 At the end of this fantasy corridor is a lounge area complete with a sofa inspired by the petals of a flower. It is here that visitors who do not need to use the restroom can wait for their friends. The men’s and women’s facilities feature custom decoration, complete with fountain-inspired washbasins positioned at different heights to make them reachable by both children and adults.

 

“A washroom in a shopping mall is a public space open to everyone. It serves people in their busy urban life and provides them a space to take a break or re-organize themselves,” designer Li Xiang said. “During the design process, I did not particularly want to design it as a functional-only space; therefore, we suggested putting more emphasis on the design of the washroom to reflect human comfort in an unexpected corner of the shopping mall. That is why we came up with the concept of Sanctuary Garden.”

There is so much going on in this bathroom, from abstract geometry and shapes inspired by flowers and insects to plush chairs and lots of LED strips. It is hard to really pin down the design style, but it is definitely very different from what we are used to in shopping mall bathrooms and public bathrooms, in general.

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