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Yangzhou Zhongshuge Bookstore
Retail Architecture Development in China – design by X+Living
12 Jan 2017
Yangzhou Zhongshuge Bookstore
Design: X+Living
Location: Yangzhou, China
Yangzhou Zhongshuge Bookstore

Water, the cradle of everything, and the breeding ground of culture. Yangzhou was born near water. In the past,guiding by water, many literati and poets visited and gathered here.

Also, this was a place loved by wits and beauties. In the book ?A Dream of Red Mansions?, when Lin Dai-Yu is missing her hometown, the verses?Spring flower and autumn moon, green hills and clear water; twenty-four bridges, relics of the Six Dynasties?will come to her mind; this verses had raised so many people?s imagination about twenty-four bridges. In 2016, Zhongshuge was attracted by this beautiful and ethereality place, and hoped to enrich the beauty of Yangzhou with its own charm!
Yangzhou Zhongshuge is located in Zhen Yuan which is next to waterside and in front of the trees. While inheritingthe previous solemn and dramatization, we added arch bridge- an indispensable element of this historical and cultural ancient city- in our design concept. It used to be the guiding factor of culture and commerce, and it represents that bookstore is the bond between human and books at the same time.

Walking into the front door of Zhongshuge, it is the lobby. Through using the concept of arch bridge, the designer ex...