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Xinhua Bookstore

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JURY VOTES
Multi-Brand Store
6.36
6.00
7.09
4.55
6
Oliver Salway
Oliver Salway Founder at Softroom
Given the sculptural beauty of the...
7
5
7
4
5.75
Cameron Fry
Cameron Fry Creative Director at Liqui Group
I can imagine it being a very inter...
6
5
8
3
5.5
Wiebe Boonstra
Wiebe Boonstra Art Director / Co Founder at DUM
I love the sculptural architectural...
6
6
6
4
5.5
Tom Edington
Tom Edington Creative Director at YourStudio
This just makes me smile, from scul...
5
8
8
5
6.5
Giulia Maria Moschen Bracho
Giulia Maria Moschen Bracho Trend Researcher | Futurist at Freelance
The beautiful layering of the arche...
8
8
7
4
6.75
Daisuke Nagatomo
Daisuke Nagatomo Assistant Professor at National Taiwan Normal University
The layers of vault wall create suc...
6
5
7
4
5.5
Sanxia Zhou
Sanxia Zhou Director at Sunshine PR and Frame China
7
7
7
5
6.5
Elena Apiou
Elena Apiou Head of design at Adagio Aparthotels
Very poetic and aesthetical place,...
6
5
8
5
6
Heidi Smith
Heidi Smith Partner at Gray Puksand
5
4
6
4
4.75
William Lim
William Lim Managing Director at CL3 Architects Limited
7
6
7
6
6.5
Valérie Boerma
Valérie Boerma Founder at Barde vanVoltt
7
7
7
6
6.75
Client
Yuhang xinhua bookstore, hangzhou yinqingge art co., LTD.
Floor area
350 ㎡
Completion
2019
Runwu Fang, Minghao Wang, F AN, Zhiwei xie

The design concept references the book as a metaphor, also drawing from Chinese tradition. The store space has been designed as another world or book to communicate with the real world we live in. Sheet walls delineate the entire space, transforming the room into a huge installation. The walls effectively merge together design studio and bookstore, transforming the space into a maze that communicates the inherent quality of the book itself. The store invites visitors to travel inside and explore, with tunnel-like corridors that pulls the visitor in, just as a book does.