教堂书店

Location: center of Maastricht, Holland
位于荷兰马斯特里赫特市中心

Despite the fact that the cathedral hadn’t been a working cathedral for more than 200 years, turning the space into a bookstore was an enormous challenge for Selexyz Dominicanen’s architects. A city ordinance required that the cathedral be completely preserved, meaning that no permanent modifications to the building of any sort were allowed!
这座大教堂已经200年没用了，如何将其空间转变为书店对于教堂书店的建筑师们来说是个巨大的挑战。城市条例规定此教堂必须被完整保护好，也就是说任何永久性改动都是不允许的！

So how do you create a three-story bookstore in a cathedral when you can’t drill any holes into the building or attach anything load-bearing to its walls? Selexyz Dominicanen made ingenious use of free-standing black steel scaffolding. This scaffolding completely supports all the bookshelves and the catwalks to them. The shelves and scaffolding are close to the cathedral's walls but scaffolding never actually touch them.
那么既然不能在墙壁上凿任何洞或是承重支架，如何将其改造为三层楼书店？教堂书店创造性地利用了无需支撑的碳钢脚手架。这个脚手架完全可以支撑所有的书架和狭小通道。书架和脚手架十分靠近大教堂墙壁，但绝不会真正触碰到墙壁。

Add to that a tasteful use of religious iconography, a nice cafe located where the church choir once sang, and a slew of inviting nooks and comfy reading areas and the result is a bookstore that’s absolutely divine.
充分利用的教堂壁画，在曾经教堂唱诗班的地方设一个咖啡馆，许多诱人的角落和舒适的阅读区域，这个书店简直就是神赐予的！

蒲蒲兰绘本馆

Location: Beijing
位于北京

What a cool design concept: Start with an all white bookstore interior—white floors, white ceiling, white walls, white stairs, white bookshelves, white everything—and to that liberally add rainbow splashes of bright color. Stock your shelves with a huge multi-language selection of kid’s books, add reading cubbyholes and padded activity areas, and you have Beijing’s Poplar Kid’s Republic, our favorite children’s bookstore in the world.This photo doesn’t really do this huge store justice so check it out yourself next you are in Beijing. Kid’s Republic also has a branch, nearly as cool, in Shanghai.
多么酷的设计理念：书店内部全是白色的，白色的地板，白色的天花板，白色的墙壁，白色的阶梯，白色的书架，一切都是白的。而在这之上是随意散落的鲜亮的七彩光泽。书架上是印有各国语言的大量儿童读物，还有阅读架，铺垫过的活动区域。这里是世界上最受欢迎的儿童书店——北京蒲蒲兰绘本馆。这张照片还不足以描绘这间书店的伟大之处，所以如果你在北京，请亲自去体验它的奇妙之处吧，上海也有一家分店，同样很酷哦。
 

莱罗书店

Location: Porto, Portugal
位于葡萄牙波尔图

Think a profitable store can’t be lush, rich and somehow homely? The velvety Livraria Lello in downtown Porto will change your mind. Not so much the art nouveau exterior as the gold-accented interior with its red carpets, stained glass, wood paneling and flowing central stair case. Walking into this bookstore, we had an insatiable urge to light a cigar (and we don’t smoke) because, well, this is the sort of place it seems like one should do that. And, indeed, this is the sort of place where one can do that. Cigars are sold in the Livraria Lello’s upstairs four-table coffee shop along with port, coffee (obviously) and baked goods.
盈利书店似乎不可能又奢华又家常式？那位于波尔图市区柔润的莱罗书店一定会颠覆你的思维。与其说它新艺术外墙，倒不如说它金碧辉煌、铺有红地毯、彩色玻璃、木质镶板和平滑中央楼梯间的内堂。走进书店，就忍不住有一股冲动点上一支雪茄（当然不是为了抽），因为，好吧，这就像是应该这么做的地方。实际上，你确实可以在这里那么做。在莱罗书店楼上有四张桌子的咖啡店就有雪茄出售，与此同时你还可以在这里买到波特酒、咖啡（很显然的啦）和烘烤食品。 

雅典人书店

Location: Buenos Aires
位于布宜诺斯艾利斯

Quiz question: Where and when was the first ever movie with sound shown to a public audience?
提问：世界上第一部有声电影是什么时候和在哪里向公众放映的？

The answer: The El Ateneo bookstore, 1929.
答案：1929年布宜诺斯艾利斯雅典人书店

Of course, this gorgeous building in central Buenos Aires wasn’t always a bookstore. It started its life in 1919 as the Teatro Grand Splendid; more than 1,000 patrons would fill the theater to watch operas and tango performances. In 1928 this space was converted into a cinema. It has been a bookstore since 2000. Happily, the El Ateneo architects included many homages to the building’s theater days including curtains and stage lighting. There’s also a wonderful cafe up on the “stage.” Add to that plush seating areas and a huge selection of literature and you have what is by far the best bookstore in South America, arguably the most luxurious in the world, and #4 on coolest-looking bookstore list.
当然，这座华丽建筑以前并不是书店。它于1919年因戏剧热兴起而建成，里面能容纳1000人同时观看戏剧和跳探戈舞。1928年时它被改建为电影院，到2000年时又被改为书店。幸运的是雅典人书店的建筑师们尊崇保留了这座建筑以前的戏剧风格，包括窗帘和舞台灯光，舞台之上还有一个绝妙的咖啡馆，再加上豪华的座椅区和大量文学书籍，这里是目前为止南美最好的书店，也无可辩驳地是世界上最奢华的书店，在最酷书店上排名第四。

莎士比亚古董旧书店

Location: Paris
位于巴黎

If you’ve seen the movie Before Sunset you’ve seen the inside of the Shakespeare & Co. Antiquarian bookstore—this is where Julie Delpy’s character reunited with Ethan Hawke’s during a book signing.
如果你看过电影《日落之前》，那你一定看过里面的莎士比亚古董旧书店，这是茱莉·黛尔碧和伊桑·霍克饰演的男女主角在签书会上重逢的地方。

If you’ve read Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. (and if you haven’t you should) then you are intimately familiar with this bookstore. Time Was Soft There is the lusciously-written memoir of a homeless man who was allowed to sleep overnight in Shakespeare & Co by the store’s owner. His bed is still there.
如果你看过《时间在此变得温柔——逗留巴黎“莎士比亚书店”》（如果你还没看过，那你真的该去看看），你一定会对这家书店感到无比亲切。《时间在此变得温柔——逗留巴黎“莎士比亚书店”》一书是一位无家可归的人被主人允许夜宿莎士比亚古董旧书店所写的回忆录，他的床现在还保留在书店。

But even if you’ve never seen the Shakespeare & Co. Antiquarian bookstore in the movies, or read about it in books, you’ll step through the store’s doorway and sense that this is the sort of quaint, quirky place that should be in cinema and literature. The isles are piled with books. The writer’s room has a working piano for patrons to play. Poets regularly read their work in one of the back rooms.
但即使你没看过电影，也没读过书，你走过书店的门口就可以感受到这似乎是一个只有在电影获文学作品里才会出现的离奇古怪之地。岛上堆满了书，作者的房间有为老顾客演奏提供的钢琴。是人们则经常在某个密室里朗诵自己的诗作。

And if you can’t get to Paris personally then at least visit the store’s supremely well done website—poking around it is almost as much fun as poking around the store itself.
即使你没钱去巴黎，也应该去这家书店制作精良的网站上看看，在网站上逛和去书店一样有趣。

墨西哥El Péndulo书店

Location: Mexico City
墨西哥城

This bookstore isn’t as amazingly stunning or history-filled as the above five selections are. But it is bright, spacious, huge and gloriously plant-filled. Plus the store (and attached cafe) isn’t shy about using air conditioning, which makes El Péndulo a wonderful literary escape on a hot Mexican day.
这家书店并不像以上5家那样辉煌灿烂和声名显赫，但它宽敞明亮、植物环绕。另外，这家书店（加上附属咖啡馆）并不回避使用空调，这也使其成为炎热的墨西哥城中的一片清凉的文学领域。