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So many public toilets are a last resort – why not a restful refuge?

  • Written by Christian Tietz, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW
Functional, yes. Possibly clean, too. But most of our public toilets aren't inviting.Kgbo/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

In the late 1980s our friends living on Sydney’s Palm Beach in the old Beacon Tea Rooms had no flushing toilet. One of them, a judge’s son and architect, used a galvanised bucket, which got picked up once a week. The...

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