Toto, we're not in Barnes and Noble anymore... Take one step inside this incredibly ornate megachamber and you're sure to realize that it isn't your average bookstore. El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires is one of the most dramatic booksellers in the world, which makes a lot of sense considering the space used to be a theater. Architect Fernando Manzone converted the cinema into a shop, but retained many parts of the theater from the stage to the incredible architectural details and even the red curtains - a material-saving move that paid off judging from the shop's popularity.
You don’t mention where this is. It’s kind of an important piece of information, no? You shouldn’t make your readers go to Wikipedia to find out basic things like that.
Nowhere in the article does it say were this bookstore is! Though in one of the pictures I can read a sign that says Argentina, so, is this book store in Buenos Aires?
Houston had a bookstore called Bookstop in what used to be the Alabama Theater, then it became of all things a Barns and Noble, it closed a couple of years ago. The Alabama Theater I must say was not even close, not by a mile, to the Grand Splendid Theater in its beauty!
It says in the third sentence that the book store is in Buenos Aires:
“Toto, we’re not in Barnes and Noble anymore… Take one step inside this incredibly ornate megachamber and you’re sure to realize that it isn’t your average bookstore. El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires is one of the most dramatic booksellers in the world, which makes a lot of sense considering the space used to be a theater. Architect Fernando Manzone converted the cinema into a shop, but retained many parts of the theater from the stage to the incredible architectural details and even the red curtains – a material-saving move that paid off judging from the shop’s popularity.”
Great reuse of an amazing space!! very dramatic!! co-tain.com