design of toilets/bathrooms in ‘designer bars’???

I remember seeing once that the designers at Audi had designed a loo for a street in London

saw toilets in a bar in new york-can’t remember the name- that were unisex and had clear glass doors. pretty disconcerting, until you locked them and they instantly became opaque.
they work using a clear laminate sandwiched between two sheets of glass, which turns opaque when an electric current is passed through it. by locking the door you complete an electrical circuit, and hey presto, your cubicle is transformed from a public spectacle to a private bog. Rem koolhaas is using the same system for the changing rooms in his new Prada shops, i think

You can find the same type of toilets at the public toilets at the Museum Plane in Amsterdam… it looks clean and sofisticaded but its bloody scry if you don´t know what really happens when you close the door!! Anyway there are some really nice toilets at a bar in a hotel near the Liffey (can´t remember the name but i´ll check it). Of corse i mean only the female ones, i didn´t visit the others!

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And if the power goes???

maybe the toilets downstairs in the Morrison Hotel ???

Tx… that´s the name. What do you think of it?

If its outstanding and creative toilet designs you’re looking for – it has to be the men’s toilets in the Ulysses Bar, Waterford City. But a word to the wise don’t stand to close to the waterfall like urinal and the pint in there isn’t too bad either.

The toilets in spi, the powerscourt townhouse are really cool theyare unisex too and on the doors there are holograms. depending on which position the door is there are hetro/homo cubicle action scenes, v. cool, I think theres about 5 cubicles in all each with different scenes

pvdz, where are those toillets ??!!

Downstairs in the Spy club in the Powerscourt Centre South William Street – behind the pool table – I think they open at 5pm access from the street. Don’t remember the holograms though…

Beware of the “sniffy” door policy – this place is a competitor of Lillies Bordello.

During the summer last, i was working with an architect who was talking about a design for tiolet cubicles he did for a shopping centre. They had oneway mirrorsfor walls, so on the outside a reflection , but from the inside you could see everything around you….. the hunderds of other shoppers passing by in totalignorance of you being in what otherwise might be quite a comprimising position.
If thats not playing with peoples sence of paranoia then i dont know what would be.

cajual – do you have any idea where those toilets in new york were?

yep, they’re in a place called Bar 89 on 89 Mercer Street between Spring Street and Broome Street in Soho.

Another nice/wierd idea is a solution i have been seing apllied on shopping centers (not bars yet). The process consists on apllying acrilic elements like the place where you wash your hands (or whatever you call it!), the cover of the toilet itself, etc. Inside the transparent acrylic you find several objects “freezed”. i.e. lipsticks and jewllery in ladies rooms, steaks and forks on the toilets near the restaurants, toys on the childrens toilet, etc. The act of going to the toilet starts to be a “observation game” too, trying to find the most peculiar objects. The wierd part is when u need to seat on top of food and other wierd objects!!