There’s a book shop in southwest China called Dujiangyan Zhongshuge which is a surreal experience, spiraling staircases, curved archways and strategically-placed mirrors, creating an illusion of infinity.
Mesmerizing Bookstore Feels Like Walking Into an Escher Drawing
There’s a bookshop, with narrow shelves crammed with books, the smell of dust and paper in the air. And then there’s a book buying experience, where the shop itself is the attraction.
The mesmerizing Dujiangyan Zhongshuge bookstore in China, is clearly the latter, with an interior that almost defies explanation or description. We’re positive that photos don’t do the experience justice,…
Dujiangyan Zhongshuge a bookstore located in Chengdu in the Sichuan Province, China. Photography credited to Feng Shao.
The floor plan of Dujiangyan Zhongshuge.
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The bookstore completed and opened to the public in 2020 and is home to 80,000 books. It has the area space of 973sqm and is constructed with smooth black tiles, mirrors, and spiral stair cases, housing a cafe on the first floor. The bookstore was designed by a Shanghai based company named X+ living, and the projects designer was Li Xiang, the project directors were Fan Chen and Wu Feng.
É Monumento de Interesse Público desde 2013 e desde que abriu portas, em 1906, não lhe têm faltado elogios. Agora, junta-se mais um título à lista. A Livraria Lello, no Porto, foi eleita ‘A Livraria Mais Bonita do Mundo’ numa votação promovida pela comunidade online ‘One Thousand Libraries’ (1000Libraries), que atraiu mais de 200 mil fãs de bibliotecas e livrarias.
A Livraria Lello ficou à frente de espaços como a Shakespeare & Company, em Paris, França, que ocupou o segundo lugar, e a Dujiangyan Zhongshug, em Dujiangyan, na China, que fechou o pódio. Foram escolhidas entre 15 finalistas de todo o mundo.
All people contain a multitude of worlds stretched across the possibilities of their mind. To reach such worlds, the spine of a book holds as strong as any staircase, its pages as straight as any railing.
The "Dujiangyan Zhongshuge" Bookstore by X+Living - 2020 - Chengdu, China