A new building at a government university in Zhengzhou, Henan clearly resembles a gigantic toilet and is drawing humorous and scathing commentary on Chinese social media.

Pundits surmise the resemblance to a toilet bowl is intentional since the building belongs to the appropriately named the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power (NCWU). NCWU is a public university and construction of the toilet-shaped building was fully funded by the government.

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The building remains unopened but is going to be used for student employment services. University officials claim the building's resemblance to a toilet is unintentional but skeptics question this citing the university's educational focus.

NCWU is a full-time public university specializing in water resources and hydropower, with engineering as a key program.

China's government-run newspaper, the People's Daily, also reported the building looks like a huge toilet. Some netizens even praised the architect for his wry sense of humor. Others questioned why the university even approved the insulting design.

The eye-catching architectural marvel, situated at the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in Heinan, China, is fully funded by the Chinese government because NCWU is a public university.

"From a fengshui standpoint, the design is very auspicious. We should give it some time," said a social media comment.

The construction of the "crappy" building, however, comes almost two years since President Xi Jinping called for less ostentatious or weird buildings in China. Xi made the comment in October 2014 after an unending flood of comments on Weibo and other social media poking fun at some of China's new buildings and infrastructure that resemble private parts of the human anatomy.

Special derision was levied at the Beijing Daxing International Airport, which is currently being built, whose design resembles a giant vagina or "vajayjay" as Chinese netizens say. The airport was designed by the late British architect, Zaha Hadid, who became famous for her flamboyant architecture.

A scale model of the airport triggered the social commentary on its unfortunate shape. Construction of the new airport is scheduled to be completed by September 2019.

When completed and if the vagina-shaped design remains unchanged (which it probably will), the new airport will join other Chinese architectural embarrassments such as the penis-shaped People's Daily Building in Beijing and the CCTV building, also in Beijing, that's been nicknamed "big pants."

The Beijing Daxing International Airport doesn't yet have an official name and netizens on Weibo should have a grand time inventing an appropriate name for its appropriate shape.

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