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No, this is not a shopping mall. It’s the Guangzhou Library…
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The Guangzhou Library, established by the Guangzhou Municipal Government (GMG), was created for the benefit of the public's welfare, and to serve as a cultural and educational institution. The library's services are based on collecting, organizing, and housing all categories of written knowledge and information including paper-based materials, audio-visual materials, and digital materials. The library offers lending materials, reference and information services, exhibitions and lectures, art appreciation, cultural exhibits, Internet services, public education services, research, and spaces for communication.
The new Guangzhou Library is situated on the banks of the Pearl River on Flower City Square and on Guangzhou's new central axis. The square is the GMG's effort to create a city "living room". The library is the "cultural window" of the city's "living room". The new library uses "Beautiful Books" as the design concept, and the placement of the structure is based on the city's new central axis. Taken from east to west, the design of the north and south towers bears a resemblance to the Chinese character "之". The cascading style of the "books" on the exterior is representative of the overlap of history and culture. At the same time, the design integrates the typical architectural concept of arcade, and embodies elements of Lingnan art.
The new Guangzhou Library covers a gross area of 100 thousand square meters and holds 8.43 million collection. It provides four thousand seats and 500 computers for readers to use. There are four thousand Internet nodes and the wifi service is available in the whole building. (Source, Wikipedia, no friend of China or Russia, in accord with US foreign policy lines.)
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