BLDG BLOG reports (with photographs) on the bookshop constructed inside a converted Dominican church in Maastricht, which has won an architectural interiors prize.
. . . it achieves a weirdly ironic overlap in which two cultural spaces, both on the verge of extinction, at least in Western Europe – and I’m referring here to the Christian church and to the bookshop – come together to form a kind of last gasp for either entity.
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[...] of talk about bookshops in churches, lately. So how about this one: The bookstore to end all bookstores, at least in South America, is [...]
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Dec 12th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Beautiful building, shame its not being used for worship any more.