You Can Climb A ’Book Mountain’ In This Gigantic Library In China

This library is a book lover’s dream come true. The Tianjin Binhai Library, Tianjin, China.  33,700 square meters. Five levels. Enough shelf space for 1.2 million books. It was completed by Dutch architecture firm MVRDV and local architects from the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute. It’s nicknamed “The Eye.“ “The angles and curves are meant to stimulate different uses of the space, such as reading, walking, meeting and discussing. Together they form the ’eye’ of the building: to see and be s