Friedensreich Hundertwasser created the potty toilet block in 1999. He died a year later so he never got to see how popular the toilets were to become over the next 20 years.

Hundertwasser moved to New Zealand in the 1970s and created his toilet masterpiece in 1999. But the architect never got to see how popular it would become in the next two decades as the following ...

Hundertwasser’s commitment to turning the Kawakawa toilets into something truly unique reflected his relationship with the Bay of Islands community, Edwards said.

Visit Atlas Obsura for more on Hundertwasser’s architecture, including Waldspirale and the Hundertwasser toilets. The Maishima waste treatment plant. Photo: Hiromitsu Morimoto/Creative Commons.

TRAVEL SHARE: Reader Tan Ling Suan gets all flushed and excited at a unique artistic Kiwi public toilet. If you talk about beautiful toilets (now is that an oxymoron?) to Malaysians, they would ...

Hundertwasser Toilet custodians Sharon Davis, left, and Christine Kerr are worried about the survival of a Northland icon. The head custodian at Kawakawa's Hundertwasser toilets is relieved the ...

Kawakawa's Hundertwasser toilets could soon join the ranks of New Zealand’s most significant buildings as a Category 1 Historic Place. A public toilet block in small-town Northland could soon ...

As Hundertwasser’s final work, the toilets have become a major tourist attraction for this tiny North Island town. The Previous Champ: Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A.

The toilets, in the small town of Kawakawa, were designed by the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and use irregular tiles, coloured glass and a living tree to create a psychedelic ...

“Although the Hundertwasser Public Toilets building in Kawakawa is less than 25 years old, its heritage values are remarkable,” he says.

A visit to New Zealand in 1973 for an exhibition of his work at the Auckland Art Gallery changed Hundertwasser’s life. After the opening of the exhibition, he bought a Morris Mini and travelled ...