Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore designed by X+Living, As one of the world?s largest inland city of mountains and rivers, Chongqing is a city full of surprises and wonderful and charming corners. Since ancient times, its landscape and numerous historical sites have attracted many ancient writers and calligraphers. Until today, Chongqing is still a city of attraction to everyone.

Located on the 3rd and 4th Floor of Zodi Plaza, Yangjiaping, the Chongqing Zhongshuge greets visitors with a simple glass facade covered with text. Once inside, scattered ?lampshade-shaped bookshelves? are found throughout the dark brown lobby. Visitors can feel as if they were in a bright and warm private study when they read in the warm light projected from inside the lampshades. Photography: Feng Shao
On one corner of the lampshade-shaped lobby is a quiet reading corridor, with bookshelves extending down the hallway. The bookshelves reflect on the ground and form a tunnel of books that beckons visitors to follow it deeper into space and knowledge. On the other corner of the lobby are the children?s reading room, where the bookshelves are built colorful withdrawn Chongqing?s landscape, buildings, and transportation. Children may feel like in the charming Chongqing while reading in this room.
Photography: Feng Shao
Further down the corridor and the children?s reading room is the main study, a ?ladder hall? where the stair double as bookshelves and the mirrored ceiling overhead doubles the size of th...