Walking around the city, especially along the canals, you're likely to see various quirks, like garbage bin-green public ...

Three-dimensional renderings of urinals. From left to right: Duchamp’s “La Fontaine,” a contemporary commercial model, Cornucopia, and Nautilus. A urinal designed to avoid urine splashback ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have new designs for urinals they say reduce the amount of splatter or “splashback” to just 1.4 per cent of the ...

The closest it gets to scatological terminology is “pissoir,” the French term for outdoor urinals, which also go by the name “vespasienne.” One pun that did make it into print was for a hypothetical ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Urinals aren’t a new concept. In fact, some of the earliest known examples can be traced back to around 1000 CE, when Sri ...

Thousands of gallons of ill-aimed pee could be spared from lavatory floors thanks to a new urinal design, scientists say.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo and Weber Sate University have tackled a pressing issue in public bathrooms around the globe: urinal splashback. They designed two new urinals ...

The fire, in the Syctom recycling plant, was next to Paris's main court complex Smoke billows behind the Sacre Coeur Basilica as a "major fire" broke out in the nearby 17th arrondissement ...

By Amy Tara Koch When shopping in Paris, you could follow the tourists to Avenue Montaigne and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, where off-the-catwalk designs are displayed like venerated artwork.

A huge fire erupted on Monday evening at a waste collection centre in Paris. According to reports, the fire engulfed Syctom waste collection. According to Syctom's official website, the ...

The concept of public urinals, or 'Pissoirs', originated in Paris in the 1830s, with the city government installing them on major boulevards. The design spread to other parts of Europe and the ...