But there's this public restroom in China that just takes the cake. It's on a whole other level of luxury, like something you'd expect to find in a billionaire's mansion.
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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’s 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 makes you feel like you accidentally walked into a whimsical palace. That’s 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. This part of the bathroom was designed as “an immersive walk-through-a-garden experience”, but it’s 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.
At the end of this whimsical corridor is a lounge area complete with a sofa inspired by the petals of a flower. It’s here that visitors who don’t need to use the restroom can wait for their friends. The men’s and women’s facilities feature custom decor, complete with fountain-inspired washbasins positioned at different heights to make them reachable by both children and adults.
“A 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,” designer Li Xiang said. “During the design process, I don’t 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’s why we came up with the concept of Sanctuary Garden.”
I seriously can't believe that this extravagant bathroom is in a shopping mall, of all places.
I'd feel kinda awkward strolling in there wearing just a regular t-shirt and jeans. It's like they expect everyone to be in black-tie attire just to step into this restroom.
