University buildings are supposed to conjure up feelings of majesty and tradition, not sewage.

In Heinan, China, at the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, a new building was recently erected with a striking verisimilitude to a toilet. While it's possible that part of the design was intentional, some have accused the architect for being crass. Others couldn't be happier that public dollars were used to make an enormous permanent crapper:

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"From a fengshui standpoint, the design is very auspicious. We should give it some time," one observer told Shanghaist.



In February, Chinese officials banned "weird buildings" from being constructed. The decision came after people complained that the People's Daily Headquarters looked like a phallus, and the design for the new Beijing airport looked like a giant vulva.

Not everyone, apparently, wants to fly into an open vagina.

Officials, it appeared, didn't want to "flush" public dollars into a crass architectural science project.

Sewage gets a bad rap. Maybe it's time we all take a step back and examine our biases before passing judgement on this beautiful crapper of a building.

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