The Good, The Bad, The Boring

摘要

Around the vast new olym-pic Park in Sydney, Australia, there are four humble buildings scattered like dice, dwarfed by the sports complexes that will be home to the Games that begin in September. The little structures are identical except for the color of their fat steel arches, each a different hue plucked from a kid's crayon box. At first it's hard to figure out what the buildings are: they look like giant caterpillars, their puffy, twisting white fabric roofs stretched over the bright steel ribs. At night, lit from inside, they look like glowworms. OK, they're the bathrooms—but they couldn't be farther from the dank cinder-block public loos you usually find at sports arenas. They look so cool and the concept is so witty that the toilets are upstaging the multimillion-dollar structures.