Do you remember the scene in Crocodile Dundee (1986) when the eponymous hero is faced by a mugger with a knife and, quite unfazed, chuckles and pulls out a massive hunting knife with the immortal line “… that’s a knife”? That is what came to mind when I saw photos of the newly opened library in the Binhai Cultural District of Tianjin, China:

That’s a library! The figures given some sense of scale but it still looks huge (and perhaps a bit precarious for the higher runs of shelving!). I wonder what they keep in the central sphere? More photos on Bored Panda.