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Fumihiko Maki tops Tokyo toilet with “cheerful roof” – Dezeen
Fumihiko Maki has replaced a public toilet in Tokyo’s “Octopus Park” with a new facility topped with a thin white roof that it has dubbed the Squid Toilet.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki has replaced a public toilet in Tokyo’s “Octopus Park” with a new facility topped with a thin white roof that it has dubbed the Squid Toilet.
Built as part of the Tokyo Toiletproject to upgrade toilets in the downtown Shibuya district by the non-profit Nippon Foundation, the facility was put up in the Ebisu East Park, which is known as the Octopus Park due to an octopus-shaped slide.
Maki’s studio, Maki and Associates, designed the building to be …
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