Tokyo Toilet Project

• Prize
  Silver in Architecture/Buildings
• Photographer
  Ulana Switucha
• Technical Info
  Nikon Z7
• Photo Date
  2024

The Tokyo Toilet Project is an urban redevelopment project in Shibuya, Tokyo. It involved the design and construction of modern public restrooms that encourages their use and the use of the surrounding public spaces. 17 structures were designed by 16 globally recognized architects who used their creative skills to erase the conventional negative image of public restrooms and to create inclusive spaces that were also safe and clean. The distinctive buildings are as much works of art as they are a public convenience. These images are part of a larger body of work.

Ulana Switucha has photographed throughout Asia for over 30 years and currently resides in Hong Kong. She creates evocative landscape, portrait and documentary photographs working in both colour and black and white. Influenced by a Japanese aesthetic, there is an evolving minimalist style and contemplative peacefulness in her recent work.