Architecture firm X+Living has renovated a large bookstore in Tianjin, China, using layered brickwork and slatted steel to form wave-like shelves, steps and seating that flow around its central hall. More about Steel slats form sculptural shelves at Tianjin Zhongshuge bookstore by X+Living
Smooth curving walls and a spout-like skylight are intended to evoke the inside of a teapot at Ceramic Pages, a bookshop in China by local architecture studio Wutopia Lab. More about Wutopia Lab designs bookshop in China to resemble inside of teapot
Chinese studio Trace Architecture Office has repaired and renovated a historic building in Yunnan, China, to house the Weishan Chongzheng Academy Bookstore. More about Trace Architecture Office creates bookstore "with spatial experiences" within historic academy
Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has completed a light-filled bookshop with a timber roof at a ski resort in northern China for local retailer Naïve. More about Atelier Tao+C creates "luminous" bookshop in Chinese ski resort
Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has wrapped the Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore in Nagano with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms". More about Klein Dytham Architecture wraps Japanese bookstore with "flowing" steel roof
Local architecture studio Moroni Ciovini and designer Ana Montero have preserved the exposed layers of concrete wall for this bookstore and café in Buenos Aires. More about Moroni Ciovini and Ana Montero expose textured concrete walls in Buenos Aires shop
A second-hand bookstore styled like a greengrocer and an outlet modelled on old libraries are among the projects collected in our latest lookbook, which explores bookshop interior designs. More about Ten inventive bookshop interiors designed to enhance the browsing experience
Used books are displayed in supermarket-style crates at the Deja Vu Recycle Store in Shanghai, which local studio Offhand Practice has designed to counter the "shabby" image associated with second-hand shops. More about Offhand Practice designs second-hand bookshop in Shanghai to mimic greengrocer
Chinese studio Muda Architects has designed a lakeside bookshop in Chengdu featuring a roof that resembles an upturned book and windows that extend below the water level. More about Muda Architects completes bookshop in Chengdu with roof shaped like "a flipped book"
The strings of musical instruments informed the vertical lighting elements and bookshelves of this cinema lobby and bookshop created by Hong Kong-based Pulse On for a site in Shanghai's Bingo Plaza shopping mall. More about Pulse On designs "zen-like" lobby for Shanghai cinema
Danish studio Norm Architects has designed a flagship bookstore for distributor New Mags that features stone plinths and pivoting wooden walls. More about Norm Architects designs New Mags bookstore in Copenhagen to reference old libraries
Architecture studio Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU have used layers of perforated metal to transform two disused buildings on the banks of Taizhou's Yongning River into a bright and modern bookshop. More about Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU wrap bookstore in perforated facade to mimic clouds
From shops that display books on tree trunk columns to stores that reflect books all over the walls, we've rounded up ten bookshops in China that exhibit books in non-traditional ways. More about Ten Chinese bookshops that display books in imaginative ways
Translucent glass shrouds the books within this bookshop in Chongqing, designed by architecture studio HAS Design and Research. More about HAS uses frosted glass to "blur boundaries" in Chongqing bookshop
Translucent rotating walls pivot to transform the interior of this bookshop in Beijing by Chinese architecture firm LUO Studio. More about LUO Studio uses rotating walls to create flexible Beijing bookshop
Bookshelves made from perforated aluminium and quartz stone double as partition walls in this maze-like Shanghai bookstore by local architecture studio Wutopia Lab. More about Wutopia Lab's latest bookstore in Shanghai borrows from traditional Chinese garden design
Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has renovated the Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore in Wuhan, China, inserting a shard-like glass lightwell that pierces through six stories. More about Wutopia inserts inverted triangular lightwell into book shop
Trace Architecture Office has inserted a bookshop and cafe into old rammed earth gables of a long-abandoned house in rural China. More about Bookshop in paddy field sandwiched between walls of abandoned house
Mirrored ceilings and zigzag staircases help form the perplexing interiors of this bookstore in south-west China, which has been designed by architecture studio X+Living. More about X+Living creates the illusion of a myriad of staircases at Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore
Young Georgian designer Lado Lomitashvili has completed a bookstore-cum-cafe in Tbilisi, which he hopes will "raise the quality of taste" in the city. More about Lado Lomitashvili creates cultural hub in Tbilisi with They Said Books shop