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Starbucks Espresso Journey by Nendo

This pop-up Starbucks coffee shop in Tokyo by Japanese design studio Nendo was designed like a library, where customers ordered drinks by taking books to the counter. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves lined the curved interior walls of the shop and were filled with books with nine different coloured covers, to represent each of the drinks being served. Customers were invited to read about different types of coffee from the cover sleeves of the otherwise empty books, before exchanging one at the counter for a corresponding drink. With their coffee, each customer was also given the sleeve to keep, which they could use to customise their own Starbucks takeaway flask. The shop was installed at the start of September in the Omotesando neighbourhood and was open for just three weeks.

Book Mountain, Spijkenisse, The Netherlands by MVRDV

A,A by Jim Sanborn

Located on the University of Houston campus, A,A is a light sculpture in which beautiful poems, novels, and prose from all over the world illuminate the surface of the M.D. Anderson Library. Arabic, Russian, Spanish, and Chinese projections grow out of the carved copper, covering the dark, architectural background in a stunning display of languages.

New Library, University of Aberdeen, Scotland by Schmidt Hammer Lassen