{"id":7209,"date":"2023-08-15T06:41:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2023-08-15T06:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T18:41:40","slug":"worlds-most-beautiful-public-bathroom-opens-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7209","title":{"rendered":"World’s most beautiful public bathroom opens in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tucked away on the sixth floor of a Nanjing shopping mall is one of the fanciest, most impressive public bathrooms in the world.<\/p>\n

To some, it is the world\u2019s most beautiful public bathroom.<\/p>\n

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 accidentally walked into a whimsical palace.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not usually the feeling you get from most public bathrooms. It starts out with a long corridor lined with plants coming out of the walls.<\/p>\n

This part of the bathroom was designed as \u201can immersive walk-through-a-garden experience\u201d, but it\u2019s hard to focus on the green decor with dozens of giant lamps shining on you from above, and with the light reflecting on the glossy floor.<\/p>\n

At the end of this whimsical corridor is a lounge area complete with a sofa inspired by the petals of a flower. It\u2019s here that visitors who don\u2019t need to use the restroom can wait for their friends.<\/p>\n

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The men\u2019s and women\u2019s facilities feature custom decor, complete with fountain-inspired washbasins positioned at different heights to make them reachable by both children and adults.<\/p>\n

\u201cA washroom in a shopping mall is a public space open to everyone. It accommodates people in their busy urban life and provides them a space to take a break or re-organize themselves,\u201d designer Li Xiang said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the design process, I don\u2019t particularly want to design it as a functional-only space, therefore, we suggested putting more emphasis on the design of the washroom, so as to reflect humanistic care in unexpected corners of the shopping mall. That\u2019s why we came up with the concept of Sanctuary Garden.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is so much going on in this bathroom, from abstract geometry and shapes inspired by flowers and insects to plush vanity chairs and lots of LED strips, that it\u2019s hard to really pin down the design style, but it\u2019s definitely very different than what we\u2019re used to seeing in shopping mall bathrooms and public bathrooms in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7211,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions\/7211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}