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How do you define "communal"? In Europe it's common to have fully enclosed "stalls" (basically rooms in themselves) - either with their own sinks or the sinks are indeed outside and shared by all.
In NA the stalls tend to be open above and below, never mind urinals which are just out in the open maybe with small "blinders" in between if you're lucky. Personally, I don't care, but I could see people being more shy in that situation.
In bars/clubs I imagine there'd be an issue of more people taking up stalls to hook up since you wouldn't need to be sneaky about entering/leaving the washroom any more, but maybe that's just trashy behavior that can't be helped anyways.
When "traditionally-gendered" bathrooms are converted to unisex, they don't just change the sign on the door. The bathrooms get redesigned entirely. Every multi-stall unisex bathroom I've seen is similar to what troad described above - floor-to-ceiling length stall doors, with a communal sink area. I've never left North America.
TBH, sometimes they do just change the sign. You'll have "all-gender (with urinals)" and "all-gender (no urinals)". I saw that at an older theater in Western Massachusetts.
It probably has to do with budget and clientele. This theater's audience skewed 20ish at the show I was at.
I looked up pictures of this airport's bathrooms and it's a standard shared sink counter situation. The toilets are, of course, private.
What you described exists here as well but I've never seen it in an airport