In 2002, Cambridge City Council held a competition to design new public conveniences to replace the former toilet block on Parker’s Piece. An important part of the brief was that the building should discourage anti-social behaviour and vandalism. Freeland Rees Roberts’ winning design, based on an octagonal shape, incorporates five prefabricated cubicles including a DDA facility and a parent/baby changing room, each opening directly onto the outside without sheltered public areas that might encourage unwelcome behaviour. The building also incorporates a kiosk, for selling magazines and snacks, as an added deterrent to vandalism and anti-social behaviour. The design was inspired by the leisure and entertainment afforded by the park and the form is loosely based on a fairground merry-go-round. Materials are robust and in sympathy with the local context. The red, orange and yellow rendered walls reinforce the fairground motif and suggest movement as one walks past the varied colours. Large panels of cold cathode lights, which gradually change colour, illuminate the building at nights and on overcast days, and increase the feeling of movement. The design included an opportunity for public art to cover the kiosk doors, for which a competition was set up with Cambridge Regional College. The commission was won by Moira Lawson-Humphris, a Fine Art student, who created a mural in stainless steel that refers to the elm trees that once lined Parker’s Piece. This facility won an RIBA East Spirit of Ingenuity ‘Architecture for Tourism Reward’ 2004, and a David Urwin Design Commendation 2005.