How long has it been since you read a book?
Nowadays, libraries and physical bookstores, as important sites in the urban cultural space and cultural and spiritual landmarks of urban life, have always been deeply loved by readers and book lovers.
Have you been to the "Shanghai Little Forbidden City", "Luminous Bookcase", "Forest Library", these characteristic libraries and bookstores in Shanghai? How to get there?
Metro Line 8
Yangpu Library
"The Little Forbidden City in Shanghai"
Yellow glazed tiles, heavy eaves gabled roof, flying eaves and arches - this building that resembles the "Forbidden City" is the Yangpu Library.
The library innovates the "library + Internet + credit" lending model to achieve "24H intelligent reading". Activities with different characteristics, diverse forms and rich connotations are often held to continuously promote reading for all.
Address: No. 366, Changhai Road, Yangpu District
Transportation: Metro Line 8 to Xiangyin Road Station, or Line 10 to Jiangwan Stadium Station
Shanghai Book City (Fuzhou Road)
"Books as a City"
When it comes to bookstores, Shanghai Book City is absolutely indispensable, the building façade of the book city is designed to form the image of a huge city with many volumes piled up, catering to the design concept of "book as a city", and becoming a cultural landmark on Fuzhou Road.
In this "city" built with books, more than 100,000 books are placed in an orderly manner on the second to seventh floors for readers to read and buy.
Address: Century Publishing Building, No. 465 Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District
Transportation: Metro Line 2 and Line 10 to East Nanjing Road Station, Metro Line 1 and Line 8 to People's Square Station
Metro Line 7
Pudong Library
"Illuminated bookcase"
Looking at the Pudong Library from a distance, the simple, pure, angular rectangular building is like a giant bookcase.
Located in the center of the floor, the Sky Garden is the finishing touch to the building, with an open top.
Pudong Library has a collection of more than 4.77 million paper books and more than 3.2 million electronic books, with an average of more than 10,000 readers per day and more than 3,000 reading seats.
Address: No. 88, Qiancheng Road, Pudong New Area
Transportation: Metro Line 7 to Jinxiu Road Station
Metro Line 2
Shanghai Library East
"Forest Library"
With a construction area of 115,000 square meters, the East Building of Shanghai Library is the largest single library in China, providing nearly 6,000 reading seats and receiving 4 million readers annually. It is a smart compound library in the era of big reading, which integrates library and literature information resources, scientific and technological innovation research and development resources, social science think tank research resources, and Shanghai geographical research resources, and has become a "study, living room, and studio" for citizens to enjoy.
Located in the south area of the east hall above, the "Reading Forest" covers an area of 20,546 square meters, with the theme of "Forest Fun and Reading", which not only retains the original appearance of the forest as a whole, but also implants the function of "reading in the shade + forest oxygen walking", introduces a circular plank road through the forest, and adds reading facilities such as sleeper stools to enhance the reading experience of readers.
Address: No. 300, Hehuan Road, Pudong New Area
Transportation: Metro Line 2 to Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Station, or Line 18 to Yingchun Road Station
Duoyun Academy flagship store
Shanghai's "highest" bookstore
Do you know where the highest bookstore in Shanghai is? It's 239 meters from the center of Shanghai! Readers can "look down at the book and look up at the clouds."
With the design concept of "Landscape and Secret Land", in a large space of more than 2,200 square meters, the layout of the huge mountain-shaped bookshelf is sparse and elegant, like a flowing volume of vivid ink paintings, step by step, changing the scene, highlighting the artistic conception of "landscape China, humanistic ideals".
The college is divided into seven functional areas, integrating reading, art exhibitions, brand culture and creativity, and social leisure. The bookstore has more than 60,000 books, including more than 60,000 Chinese books and more than 1,150 foreign language books.
Address: Shanghai Tower, No. 501 Yincheng Middle Road, Pudong New Area
Metro: Metro Line 2 and Line 14 to Lujiazui Station
Metro Line 11
Xujiahui Academy
A new cultural landmark
With a total area of 18,650 square meters, Xujiahui Academy is divided into two underground floors and three floors above ground, integrating literature reading, exhibition lectures, art appreciation, cultural and creative markets, tourism guides and other functions, with nearly 800 reading seats.
Address: No. 158, Caoxi North Road, Xuhui District
Transportation: Metro Line 1, Line 9, Line 11 to Xujiahui Station
Jiading Library
"The Most Beautiful Library"
Jiading Library has the title of "the most beautiful library", which is located on the shore of Yuanxiang Lake, surrounded by shallow water, as if in the water town of the south of the Yangtze River, with a simple charm and intoxicating charm.
The gray roof resembles an open book, exuding a strong bookish atmosphere, and the elegant and simple curved kiln bricks of the façade complement the glass curtain wall of the modern building.
Address: No. 1288, Yumin South Road, Jiading District
Transportation: Metro Line 11 Jiading Xincheng Station, transfer to Jiading 15 Road to Yumin South Road Taxiu Road Station
Metro Line 17
Qingpu Library
Floating Library
Go east along the Dianpu River, stroll to the edge of Xiayang Lake, and look at it from afar, there is a strangely shaped building "floating" on the water, which is the Qingpu Library.
Surrounded by the lake, the library is full of greenery, and the library as a whole extends in a wavy shape towards the center of the lake, like a rolling wave in the lake. Sitting by the window to read a book, enjoying a good time, tired to look at the scenery of Xiayang Lake outside the window, so comfortable.
Address: No. 60, Qinglong Road, Qingpu District
Transportation: Metro Line 17 to Huijin Road Station, transfer to bus Qingpu 2 Road to Qinglong Road Huaqing South Road Station
Source: Shanghai Communications
Editor: Chen Sha
Editor-in-charge: Gao Qin
*Please indicate the source of the reprint from "Shanghai Changning"