THE WAYWARD OCTOPUS
WHERE:
Thalia Bookshop Überseequartier, Hamburg, Germany
YEAR:
2025
COLLABORATION:
NOM NOM
A BOOKSHOP OF DREAMS
Imagine walking through a dreamy bookshop stacked with exciting books and suddenly looking up to discover a huge octopus sprawling across the ceiling! Even better - the octopus is for playing in!
This one-of-a-kind playground features a 5-meter-tall octopus, its arms stretching across a 12-meter span around the bookshop. Climb up through the coral tower to explore inside the head of the octopus and all the details inside before taking the fun tube slide down again. The wooden cladding of the structure is perforated with openings of different shapes and sizes creating a fascinating effect as light streams in through them.
Play below the arms that stretch out through the shop.
Whoo! Zoom down the tube slide with your friends!
Some of the octopus' arms have wriggled their way through the bookshelves!
EXPLORE THE CURIOUS OCTOPUS
DISCOVER THE DETAILS INSIDE
Watch how the light pours through the various openings in the structure.
Climb up right to the top of the octopus' head and discover what it had for lunch!
Peek out through the openings in the structure and check out what's going on below.
A glimpse of the bookshop from above.
