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  • Ten inventive bookshop interiors designed to enhance the browsing experience

    A second-hand bookstore styled like a greengrocer and an outlet modelled on old libraries are among the projects collected in our latest lookbook, which explores bookshop interior designs. More

    Jane Englefield | 22 October 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Offhand Practice designs second-hand bookshop in Shanghai to mimic greengrocer

    Used books are displayed in supermarket-style crates at the Deja Vu Recycle Store in Shanghai, which local studio Offhand Practice has designed to counter the "shabby" image associated with second-hand shops. More

    Ali Morris | 11 October 2022 | Leave a comment
  • MUDA Architects completes bookshop in Chengdu with roof shaped like "a flipped book"

    Chinese studio MUDA Architects has designed a lakeside bookshop in Chengdu featuring a roof that resembles an upturned book and windows that extend below the water level. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 25 September 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Pulse On designs "zen-like" lobby for Shanghai cinema

    The strings of musical instruments informed the vertical lighting elements and bookshelves of this cinema lobby and bookshop created by Hong Kong-based Pulse On for a site in Shanghai's Bingo Plaza shopping mall. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 23 November 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Norm Architects designs New Mags bookstore in Copenhagen to reference old libraries

    Danish studio Norm Architects has designed a flagship bookstore for distributor New Mags that features stone plinths and pivoting wooden walls. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 19 October 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU wrap bookstore in perforated facade to mimic clouds

    Architecture studio Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU have used layers of perforated metal to transform two disused buildings on the banks of Taizhou's Yongning River into a bright and modern bookshop. More

    Ali Morris | 4 September 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Ten Chinese bookshops that display books in imaginative ways

    From shops that display books on tree trunk columns to stores that reflect books all over the walls, we've rounded up ten bookshops in China that exhibit books in non-traditional ways. More

    Alice Finney | 24 August 2021 | Leave a comment
  • HAS uses frosted glass to "blur boundaries" in Chongqing bookshop

    Translucent glass shrouds the books within this bookshop in Chongqing, designed by architecture studio HAS Design and Research. More

    Alice Finney | 23 August 2021 | Leave a comment
  • LUO Studio uses rotating walls to create flexible Beijing bookshop

    Translucent rotating walls pivot to transform the interior of this bookshop in Beijing by Chinese architecture firm LUO Studio. More

    Ali Morris | 20 June 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Wutopia Lab's latest bookstore in Shanghai borrows from traditional Chinese garden design

    Bookshelves made from perforated aluminium and quartz stone double as partition walls in this maze-like Shanghai bookstore by local architecture studio Wutopia Lab. More

    Ali Morris | 7 June 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Wutopia inserts inverted triangular lightwell into book shop

    Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has renovated the Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore in Wuhan, China, inserting a shard-like glass lightwell that pierces through six stories. More

    Jon Astbury | 24 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Bookshop in paddy field sandwiched between walls of abandoned house

    Trace Architecture Office has inserted a bookshop and cafe into old rammed earth gables of a long-abandoned house in rural China. More

    Jon Astbury | 28 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • X+Living creates the illusion of a myriad of staircases at Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore

    Mirrored ceilings and zigzag staircases help form the perplexing interiors of this bookstore in south-west China, which has been designed by architecture studio X+Living. More

    Semi Han | 4 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Lado Lomitashvili creates cultural hub in Tbilisi with They Said Books shop

    Young Georgian designer Lado Lomitashvili has completed a bookstore-cum-cafe in Tbilisi, which he hopes will "raise the quality of taste" in the city. More

    Natasha Levy | 4 April 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Synonym cafe features "cosy corners" by Atelier Barda

    A counter covered in Max Lamb's colourful man-made marble provides the focal point of this cafe and bookshop in Hamilton, Canada. More

    Bridget Cogley | 8 February 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Hangzhou bookstore blends postmodern and classical elements

    Giant geometric display stands intersect with imposing steel archways in this newly-opened book shop in Hangzhou, China designed by Alberto Caiola. More

    Ali Morris | 11 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Wutopia Lab lays out Shanghai Sanctum bookstore to be map of the human psyche

    Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab has transformed Building 25 of the Sinan Mansions in Shanghai into a bookstore that takes inspiration from the human body and mind. More

    Katie de Klee | 1 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Klein Dytham creates book-lined leisure space inside AL_A's Central Embassy tower in Bangkok

    Klein Dytham Architecture has completed a sprawling "village" of shops, restaurants and co-working space within Amanda Levete's recently completed Central Embassy complex in Bangkok, Thailand. More

    Ali Morris | 13 July 2017 | 4 comments
  • XL-Muse creates tunnel of books for shop in China

    Shanghai studio XL-Muse has used black mirrored flooring and arched shelves to create a tunnel of books inside a Chinese store (+ slideshow). More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 9 July 2016 | 1 comment
  • Zhongshuge-Hangzhou bookshop features mirrored ceilings and wraparound bookshelves

    An oval reading room with stepped shelving and a display room with tree-trunk-shaped columns are among the spaces designed by Shanghai studio XL-Muse for this bookshop in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 22 May 2016 | 1 comment
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