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POWER TOILETS /UN
winner The Great Indoors Award 2011
Client : Municipality of Heerhugowaard
Site : Heerhugowaard, Netherlands
Programme : public toilet, 55 m2
Team : collaboration with Superflex
Type : completion May 2010
Photo : Jeroen Musch, NEZU AYMO
The exterior of the Power Toilets looks incomplete or timeless - like the backside of a stage set. The interior is a copy of the United Nations Security Council toilets in the UN Headquarters building in New York, reconstructed based on photos taken secretly by an ex-UN staff member. The same materials and detailing as in the UN toilets have been applied, and furniture and sanitary accessories were rebuilt to every detail. The UN represents the power from which individual rights and peace are protected and maintained. Bathers and waterskiers in the recreation area are now free to use the same toilets as the world's most powerful leaders.