China’s Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore features M.C. Escher–like stairs and mirrored ceilings, creating an almost delirious, vertiginous thrill for visitors By Nick Mafi June 10, 2019 ...

Similar to the other Zhongshuge stores, the Chongqing location gives tens of thousands of books a special home to be viewed and bought. It places the written word on a pedestal by enclosing it in ...

Behold the new Chongqing Zhongshuge bookstore in Chongqing, China. This multi-level, 14,000-square-foot shop is half Trinity College Library and half impossible M.C. Escher vision come to life.

Tucked away from street view, the Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore by Shanghai-based X+Living occupies the third and fourth floors of Chongqing's Zodi Plaza retail development.. As well as providing ...

The Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore was designed by X+Living, with the design team saying the project reflects the way the city itself is “full of surprises and wonderful and charming corners”.

X+Living has made a real splash producing fantastical bookstores throughout China, including examples in Shenzhen and Chongqing. ... The Huai'an Zhongshuge bookstore measures 810 sq m ...

X+Living’s previous project for Zhongshuge, the labyrinth-like Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore, which was completed last year. PICTURE: Shao Feng.

Also onsite at the 1,300-sq-m (14,000-sq-ft) Shenzhen Zhongshuge bookstore is a colorful and playful children's reading area, where bold lines imprint a castle and ferris wheel on the wall.

The very best books transport you to another world, and the most magical bookstores help make that a reality. Chinese bookseller Zhongshuge is renowned for its stunning bookstores, and its latest ...

This isn’t X+Living’s first foray into the book world: The firm has previously created Zhongshuge branches in Guangzhou, Yangzhou, Minhang and Chongqing, among other locations across China.

Zhongshuge bookstores are a chain of bookshops across China, founded by book publisher Jin Hao. Since 2010, X+Living studios has designed over 20 of the chain's premises, creating spaces with ...