Toilets are a symbol of Japan's world-renowned hospitality culture. With the Tokyo Toilet Project, public toilets have been redesigned in 17 locations throughout Shibuya with the help of 16 creators invited from around the world created by such world
Since 2020, the Tokyo Toilet Project has drawn attention with its designer restrooms in Shibuya created by such world-renowned figures as Ban Shigeru, Kuma Kengo, and Andō Tadao. In May, the buzz spread abroad with acclaimed German director Wim Wende
The bathroom deserves a revision. We routinely recall inventors like Elisha Otis or Willis Carrier because the elevator or air conditioning transformed architecture, and ritually remember women who, like Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, created the modern
The latest essays by Peter Handke and Enrique Vila-Matas address architecture and art from unusual angles, but deliver less than we would expect from writers of their talent. The Austrian quotes Junichiro Tanizaki, whose In Praise of Shadows provide
