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  Washroom Totally Explained
Usually the term "washroom" is used to denote a public, commercial, or industrial personal hygiene facility designed for high throughput, whereas a similar term "bathroom" is used to denote a smaller, often residential facility for lesser throughput (for example, often for only one person at a time to use).
Sex-separated public washrooms are often difficult to negotiate for transgendered or androgynous people, who are often subject to embarrassment, harassment, or even assault or arrest by others offended by the presence of a person they interpret as being of the other gender.
Futuristic architecture is often achieved through a nice juxtaposition of industrial concrete, glass brick, some high quality fl marble, and stainless steel structural supports, where the glass brick also serves to separate the service passage from the main washroom.
washroom.totallyexplained.com   (1249 words)

  
  Washroom
A washroom is a room for washing one's hands (i.e., a lavatory), but the term also is used to denote a toilet room, also sometimes referred to as a "restroom".
Usually the term "washroom" is used to denote a public, commercial, or industrial facility designed for high throughput, whereas a similar term "bathroom" is used to denote a smaller, often residential facility for lesser throughput (i.e., often for only one person at a time to use).
Washrooms are often segregated by gender, there being two washroom facilities in many public spaces, one facility for women, and another facility for men.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/221/washroom.html   (960 words)

  
 washrooms - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Some washrooms also include full-body bathing facilities such as shower.
Washroom architecture refers to the architectural design and layout of washroom facilities, usually of a...
List of wheelchair accessible washrooms worldwide, categorized by location.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=washrooms   (81 words)

  
 Timeline || Women in Architecture
Washroom on third floor of the Architecture Building is switched from men's to women's.
Of the 1,038 tenured architecture school faculty members, 16% are female and 8% are ethnic minorities.
For architecture undergraduates, 37% are female, 15% are ethnic minorities.
www2.arch.uiuc.edu /organizations/wia/timeline.html   (843 words)

  
 auSofA » Summer 2006
Architecture enriches our lives, by making evident the fundamental relationships of landscape and building, inside and outside, public and private.
This architectural surface is the point of contact and transit between the urban and the architectural, the interior and the exterior, the private and the public, the artificial and the natural.
You are to design a single architectural surface that is 48 feet long and 14 feet high that is concerned with orientation, light, weather, structural integrity, publicity, and privacy.
www.cadc.auburn.edu /soa/index.php/programs/architecture/fyp/summer-option/summer-2006   (1219 words)

  
 A Helping Hand
For example, spacious, well-lighted washrooms that incorporate color and other design elements from the school's overall architecture combat impressions among some people that washrooms are necessary, but ancillary, facilities.
Washroom Logistics Facility planners also should consider traffic flow when they are laying out school washrooms.
Place lavatory stations before the exits of washrooms to create a natural flow of traffic from the washroom stalls and urinals to the handwashing area.
asumag.com /mag/university_helping_hand   (1208 words)

  
 JMKAC - Washrooms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The washrooms are indicative of the Arts Center's efforts to make the arts an integral part of adult's and children's lives through nationally acclaimed visual and performing arts programming.
In addition, the washroom commissions were particularly fitting because of the Arts Center's focus on the support of new work and on involving artists and the public together in the creative process.
Matt Nolen's washroom, The Social History of Architecture, evokes awed silence upon entering, then screams of delight as visitors begin to fully comprehend the imagery, and finally mutterings such as "I can't believe it.
www.jmkac.org /washrooms/washrooms.htm   (628 words)

  
 architecture « Gems Sty
This demonstration of art through engineered structure is truly inspiring, and is a major influence on the way I go about producing my work- to create objects that are simple to construct yet complex in appearance, and are efficient in the way they are produced, both in terms of construction time and material use.
Externally the architecture may look like Gaudi rose from the dead and had a cup too much, or perhaps the architect is just woefully child-like.
Set up to put fruitfully into question all that goes on within them, they steer residents to examine minutely the actions they take and to reconsider and, as it were, recalibrate their equanimity and self-possession, causing them to doubt themselves long enough to find a way to reinvent themselves.
gemssty.com /tag/architecture   (1379 words)

  
 Roc's Weblog
Just like you see a building, when you stand on the top of it, you can see the aisle, hall, bedroom, washroom and etc for every floor, this is Architect's angle of view; when you stay in one floor, you see just this floor's things, and according the whole architecture.
So, Architecture is independent on detail business logic, function, module even project, they see every project from layer's angle; while analyst and designer is business relevant, they see project from business angle, and designer will according architect's architecture to finish his design for certain function.
Architecture is the longitude of software, Business is the latitude of softare, I call this as software transit.
jroller.com /page/roczhao?catname=/Architecture   (140 words)

  
 Internet
Using a system-based range of products, our aim is to provide design and technical help of the utmost diversity and quality for the individual architectural and planning processes.
Hotels, office buildings, museums, bars and restaurants – washroom facilities are becoming ever more important in public building architecture.
This is a major challenge for architects, as this space needs to be equipped with multiple functions based on a plane, surface-based design.
www.alape.com /produkte/index.jsp?msf=05&switchlang=en   (233 words)

  
 Architect's Office - Henry Mann Architecture - Spiritual, Religious and Green Architecture
This floating office in Coal Harbour, Vancouver B.C. is a serene answer to other more standard and expensive office facilities in the downtown area.
of space accommodated five draftsmen, all office equipment and technical files, plus a washroom facility.
The sunlight would bounce off the oceans ripples up thru the floor level red stained glass, to play out its gentle patterns on the ceiling of the office.
www.henryyorkemann.com /arcoffic.htm   (87 words)

  
 Building design washroom services sanitary waste commercial washroom equipment Rentokil hygiene
What's more, your washroom is a public statement of your values and regard for the comfort and safety of your staff and customers.
The Initial range of services is designed to provide everything you need to keep your washrooms looking good, staying hygienic and minimising the risk of exposure to bacteria which are present in all washrooms.
Initial Washroom Solutions offers you a comprehensive range of products to cover every aspect of washroom hygiene, from air fresheners to soap and hand-drying systems, toilet tissue dispensers and washroom vending units to toilet seat sanitizers and floor mats.
www.buildingdesign.co.uk /facil-group2/initial-washroom/index.htm   (1287 words)

  
 What's New - Press Releases: Field Museum Washroom Spotlights Innovative Washfountains & Captures Design Award for ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
AIA Chicago is the largest professional association of licensed architects, architectural interns, and allied professionals in Illinois and the second largest AIA chapter in the country.
Yet, Dyrlund’s challenge was not as simple as creating an attractive washroom — he also needed to echo an industry trend ensuring the washrooms would meet the 80-year-old museum’s objectives.
Vernon Williams addressed the notion of displaying artifacts and exhibits into the washrooms so that the learning experience continues and is consistent with the mission of the museum.
www.bradleycorp.com /whatsnew/prnews/pr010227.htm   (535 words)

  
 Exclusive Distributorships Transform Washroom Hygiene Services Industry
It was that easy." Odorite assisted Esparza, trained her in the process of becoming a distributor, provided all necessary documents and even helped with the exportation and importation of products.
The Exclusive Distributor arrangement allows a washroom hygiene services company to exclusively serve a particular geographical area and purchase only product.
Odorite's scent products also last far longer than their competitor's washroom hygiene services products due to proprietary in-house manufacturing methods.
www.theopenpress.com /index.php?a=press&id=8164   (621 words)

  
 Design Build Network - HighTech Design Products - Innovations for Bathrooms and Guest Toilets
Since the company was set up in 1976, HighTech has positioned itself as a provider of washroom sanitary products made from new and unusual materials through the use of impressive design, high processing quality and modern techniques.
The Wedge washbasin, combined with taps and accessories from the Marathon series, enhances the ambience in your bathroom in tune with the high aesthetic standard envisaged by the architect.
Architectural solutions - significant design combinations for bathroom and wellness areas in consistent style.
www.designbuild-network.com /contractors/interior/hightech   (863 words)

  
 Landscape architecture resources
Although the coffee is no good, and the washroom taps, ironically run for a set, excessively long time, prescribed by council regulations, it is well worth a visit.
The site is pretty much self sustaining, including sewage treatment and water for flushing loos and all that bothersome car park run off.
Despite a bit of a walk from the U-bahn, it is the home to a very interesting collection of Bauhaus art, a library, café and gives you the enjoyment of experiencing, first hand, the architectural design of Walter Gropeus.
www.sjld.co.uk /links   (565 words)

  
 Gallery - Inmate Art - Photos
A number of variations of this theme using the same set of stencils decorates a stairwell.
Cherubs painting from a washroom in Auschwitz block 7.
Horseback riders from the same washroom as the cherubs painting.
fcit.usf.edu /HOLOCAUST/resource/gallery/FWALL.htm   (257 words)

  
 Construction Directory and Home Builder Guide - Specialty Components : Restroom and Bath
Builder and Construction Resource, Contractor, Architecture, Building Maintainance and Construction Supplies, and more..
Manufacturer of commercial washroom products, wash fountains, lockers, partitions, energency eyewash stations and drench showers, grab bars, hand dryers, and laboratory fittings.
Manufacturers of bathroom accessories, grab bars, and railings for hotels, hospitals, government facilities, and public housing.
www.directoryconstruction.com /specialty-components/restroom-bath   (366 words)

  
 Derivative - The Art of Live Visuals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Take apart a bunch of image scanners, mount them on the walls and in the washroom stalls of a Weimar club, connect them to TouchDesigner, and you get this manifestation of unrestrained creativity.
Design realtime projections seamlessly into architectural structures, make imagery responsive to environmental factors and shape it to any hypersurface configuration.
Use Touch's logical building-block architecture as a powerful tool for learning computer graphics, user interfaces and math - without the math, and for visualizing data in 3D.
www.derivativeinc.com /Home/Home.asp   (660 words)

  
 IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Power Architecture zone editors' notebook
It includes, but is not limited to, their ravings on Power Architecture and industry news and events.
historic HP executive washroom (yes, yes -- you also get to see the historic garage, some historic office space, and much more)
When I was in college in the mid 1980s, my broadcasting professors were all telling us how Teletext was the future, how publishing, computers, and broadcasting was all going to converge into one thing, and Teletext was that thing.
www-03.ibm.com /developerworks/blogs/page/powerarchitecture?entry=the_first_moon_experiment_and   (397 words)

  
 Torontoist: Eglinton Station Washroom Continues to Creep Out
Use an RSS reader to stay up to date with the latest posts from Torontoist.
In June, one of the Torontoists wrote about the gross washroom at Eglinton subway stop under our Ist Lists Creepiest Washroom series.
Incredibly, that washroom has become even more creepy with the news that TTC employees had peepholes into them and were spying on people.
www.torontoist.com /archives/2005/12/eglinton_statio.php   (204 words)

  
 TorontoSun.com - Toronto And GTA - Makeover for 'urinal' station
Stay up to date with all the latest local news.
The TTC's Museum subway station is on the verge of being transformed from "early Canadian washroom architecture" to something of near-museum quality.
The story you are searching for is available in its entirety via email, fax or mail for $10.00 (plus GST), payable with credit card (include expiry date).
www.torontosun.com /News/TorontoAndGTA/2006/06/09/1622194-sun.html   (281 words)

  
 CBC.ca Arts - Stolen paintings recovered behind public washroom
CBC.ca Arts - Stolen paintings recovered behind public washroom
MANCHESTER - Three paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin, stolen from a Manchester gallery, have been found behind a public washroom near the museum.
The paintings, estimated at $3 million, were found crammed in a tube only 200 metres away from the Whitworth Art Gallery on Sunday after police received an anonymous tip.
www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2003/04/28/theft280403.html   (1157 words)

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