Why it belongs in ORBIS
Four-story culture-retail store in Taipei's Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, part of the Eslite chain — books, design goods, a glass-blowing studio and a basement cinema, 24-hour since 2023.
Eslite Spectrum Songyan is a four-story branch of Taiwan's Eslite retail/bookstore chain, built on the grounds of the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, a former tobacco factory site that today functions as an arts and culture center. Beyond books in Chinese and English, the store carries music and vinyl, stationery and design goods, and hosts book signings, exhibitions and workshops; the complex also includes independent brand shops, a glass-blowing studio, a concert hall and a basement cinema showing arthouse film. In 2023 it took over the Eslite chain's 24-hour operating slot, becoming the group's round-the-clock location.