Toilet Town

What's not to love?  Kawakawa in New Zealand.  Another roadside attraction.  

Simply put; stunning!  

Functional art.  

Where architecture meets lavatory.  

Ablutions were never so arty farty!

Where restrooms become art gallery.

Toilet Town.  

The toilets are truly the highlight of the town.

All else is crappy.

I shall have to stop all this toilet talk.

Lest I digress into kindergarten humour and become potty about it.

Sculpturally Organic.

It makes for totally fascinating reading; this Austrian expat, Hundertwasser, lived there for about 25 years.  Not sure why.  But maybe that is why he began the project, simply to create a little beauty in what is essentially a non-event little town.  Sadly, Hundertwasser died a year later after completion, aged 71.  When we stopped for roadside relief and a photo opp, there were several tourists already snapping photos of the iconic ablution block.  Apparently it is the most visited toilets in the Southern Hemisphere (and also the most quirkiest and beautiful).  Inside gives one a sense of being in church, one instantly feels the need to whisper.  There is a sacredness about the place, a giant art installation in a gallery with no monetary entry fee, only a deposit of human waste.  Amazing!

Entrance to toilet

Tomb-like and sacred.  

Ethereal quality of old recycled bottle window.

Warm tones, soft edges.

I really loved these toilets.  Fell in love.  Love at first sight.  Wanted to take them home with me.  What a character Hundertwasser must have been!  A real Dr Seuss of Architecture.  Or Art-chitecture.

Functional and aesthetically pleasing

Many volunteers helped to transform this tired old public toilet block into 
Hundertwasser's vision of perfect recycled art.

The thrown.  See and feel the Luuv as you sit and Poop.

Apparently our man, Hundertwasser was very taken with the idea of human fertiliser (poop) and the potential of our dead remains to return itself to the earth (without the costly, unsustainable, chemically-saturated options of burial as we know it to be today).  So apt that he designed these chambers of poop-dom.  A royal Poop Chamber.  Charming.  Quaint.  

Post-It Note to self:  Think of all the alliteration toilet talk to describe such a place of wonder:

Crap Castle

Doodoo Dungeon

Peepee Palace

Kaka Quarters

Fecal Funerary

Stool Stable

What can you come up with?

Play of light on the surfaces is almost tangible

Queen of Poop Palace at attention.
Attentive to the Love.
Loving the attention.

Colourful mural in Kawakawa.

Toilet Town:  You just gotta go.............