The Hundertwasser Toilets is a public toilet located at 60 Gillies Street, the main street of the town of Kawakawa in northern New Zealand. The structure was completed in 1999 and named after the arch
The back wall of the women's toilets
The view of the public toilets from the curb, 2023. The Hundertwasser koru flag is flying above the building.
The hallway inside the women's toilets
The entryway to the women's stalls
A bottle wall is a wall made out of glass or plastic bottles and binding material. It is a style of vernacular architecture which has been used in areas with limited building supplies, to divert glass
Hundertwasser Toilets
…integrated small sculptures, coloured glass and a live tree incorporated into the architecture. Recycled materials, including the community's spent glass bottles and bricks from a former Bank of New Zealand branch, were used throughout. Hundertwasser requested that any vegetation removed for construction should…
A bottle wall of an Earthship bathroom
A ceramic tile cutter that has been used to cut bottles (seen on the ground behind the chair) to be taped together into a bottle wall
Two bottles cut and taped together, sitting in wet mortar