He suggested localizing tourist-area toilets.
"If the toilets are in Hualien, they can use the famous local marbles, if they are in a forest, they can use local timber. But 99 percent of the toilets look out of place with nature."
You attributed the uniformly staid toilet designs to the fact that architects do not gain as much recognition from designing toilets as from designing, say, shopping malls. Few architects in Taiwan, therefore, specialize in toilets.
To prepare for the 2008 Doubling of Tourists Arrival Plan, You agreed with Cheng that tourist-area toilets have to be clean first.
"They don't have to be like five-star hotels, they just need to be clean. They are part of the first impressions that tourists have of this country. They could even decide whether tourists consider Taiwan a civilized society," You said.
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