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Stunningly Surreal Bookstore in China
- yingliu4203 6y agoBeautiful design. Want to read inside.
- Udik 6y agoYes but where are the books? There's hardly any real books in the pics.
- izgzhen 6y agoSome of the China's biggest cities already have many similarly 'over-designed' bookstores in which people went there mostly for touring/sightseeing purpose than buying actual books (since it is easier and cheaper to buy online or read e-books). I am also wondering what is the future of offline bookstore in general.
- bobthepanda 6y agoAt least in my area remaining bookstores tend to do one or more of the following: - operate a coffee shop, so one can eat/drink a snack while reading - host in person events to drive foot traffic - branch into related fields, like selling stationery. Stationery is one of those things people like purchasing in person, because they like unique pretty stationery
- ctrlp 6y agoThe surreal part is surely the book-sized holes the censors cut out.
- thatguy0900 6y agoWell the way things are going that might not be surreal to very many people anymore
- inetsee 6y agoThere are more photos of the bookstore here: https://www.designboom.com/architecture/xliving-chongqing-zhongshuge-bookstore-china-05-31-2019/ https://www.designboom.com/architecture/xliving-chongqing-zh...
- sidpatil 6y agoThis is basically a stepwell design. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell