Smooth curving walls and a spout-like skylight are intended to evoke the inside of a teapot at Ceramic Pages, a bookshop in China by local architecture studio Wutopia Lab.

Ceramic Pages forms part of the wider redevelopment of a former clayware factory in Yixing into a cultural district, for which Kengo Kuma & Associates also recently completed UCCA Clay Museum.

Wutopia Lab's design for the bookshop is informed by the process of sculpting and firing the purple clay teapots once made on the site, with visitors moving from an earthy, purple-toned lobby, through a fiery red cafe and up to a water-themed gallery.