Revealed: China’s bizarre toilet-shaped skyscraper

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The latest addition to China’s growing collection of eccentric buildings is a 12-storey structure in the Henan province that appears to look like a giant toilet.
Complete with a bowl, seat cover, and even a blue-coloured patch on its roof for the water, the office building for the North China of Water Conservancy and Electric Power company is said to be more likely an oversight rather than subtle homage to the industry.
The latest unusual building follows tough new planning permission guidelines announced by Beijing earlier this year that curbed the development of odd-shaped structures in the country.
“There is a phenomenon that buildings in cities are attempting to be large, western-orientated and weird,” Xinhua news agency said, in a report detailing the new rules back in February.
These “lack of characteristics make people worried about cultural heritage”, the state news agency said at the time.
The new plans calling for “applicable, economic, green, and elegant” designs followed a planning conference held last December by Chinese leaders.
The rules also came after reported comments from President Xi Jinping in December 2014 criticising China’s “weird architecture”.
Some of the country’s strangest buildings in recent years have included the NetDragon Websoft HQ, the offices of a gaming firm in the south-eastern province of Fujian, which is shaped like Star Trek’s USS Enterprise. Its striking shape was no accident. Liu DeJian, the chairman of the tech firm, is an “uber Trekkie” and was reported to have sought permission from the CBS broadcasting network in the US to create the $160m homage, which is the only officially-licensed Star Trek replica building in the world…………………………………………………..
Source : telegraph .co.uk