Public toilets and electrical substations are public structures that never exactly have been an attraction (save that time when you were out and really, really needed the toilet), let alone a work of art.
Challenging this notion is the ingenious Dutch artist Roeland Otten.
Otten has found a way to simultaneously camouflage and beautify public toilets in Jan van Galenstraat, Amsterdam, and abandoned electrical substations (circa 1970) in Leuvenhoofd, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Employing materials like tiles, anti-graffiti coating, acrylic paint and coated hi-res print on aluminium, Otten first started this project for his submission to the Graaf Florisstraat competition in 2007.
Here are some of his latest creations on unique canvases:
From his winning entry, in Heemraadsingel, Rotterdam:
[via Roeland Otten]