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“CAN WE FILL THE VOID left by the disappearance of the public toilet in unique and surprising ways?” This is one of several urgent challenges posed by the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. The show is entitled The Garden of Privatised Delights, purportedly in homage to Hieronymous Bosch, an artist who knew a thing or two about voids.

The “dystopia of total privatisation” certainly looms large in the United Kingdon, but the solution proposed by and   involves a pink gazebo and a bit of old