OCT Loft. An old electronics factory turned into galleries, coffee and bookshops.

OCT Loft

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An old electronics factory turned into galleries, coffee and bookshops.

Low brick buildings, plane trees, independent shops and a lot of people working on laptops make it the closest thing Shenzhen has to a slow afternoon.

It works for a first date or a meeting that is not quite a meeting, and the bookshop at the north end stocks more in English than you would expect.