10 Gorgeous Buildings Made Out of Books

Here at Flavorpill, we’re pretty big book nerds. We’re such big book nerds that what we’d really like, more than anything, is to live in a house made of books — we think it’d totally work as long as we weren’t reading one from the ceiling when it started to rain. Plus, we’ve been known to appreciate books as much — or almost as much — for their aesthetic qualities as for their intellectual ones, so it only makes sense to use them as the grandest form of decor. Therefore, we bring you our wish list of buildings made out of books that we’d really like to live (or play) in. Click through to check them out, and let us know which one you think would be best to house you, your cozy armchair and a cup of tea.

Slovakian artist Matej Kren‘s installation Scanner. See more here.

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Amazing! Now I know what to do with the leftover books after the book sale!

I think that if this initiative was taken that the books were spread among the poor people then it will be far better.

This is awesome! One day I'll have a book-nook in my house built out of books...

Put the books down and back away you horrible little twonks. The world of the written word we can safely say is 'not for you'.

Cool! And, yes, I agree with all here who say that if they are outdated or damaged, this is a wonderful way to keep these tomes in circulation. :) ~Tui

I love them all! It never even occurred to me to think of them as "wasted" or "form without function." Naturally they're used and recycled, and you'd be amazed how many throw books away--in the TRASH!--instead of giving them away. I want to live in #9, the library "book fort," because it's like a castle and as you can see from my website, I'm all about castles!

We have a saying in the Zero Waste community: " A big enough pile of anything is worth something!"....Works for books and anything else.

As someone that works in a library I just want to say to all those that think these books could be better used, keep in mind that many science books and technological books go out of date. They aren't of any use anymore, and have much wrong information. At this point them could do more harm then good, but what a great way to use them.

the igloo type of thing, wow :) !

These are fantastic! Conceptual Art in a way? xxoo!

We Kansas Citians love our library! The children's room is gorgeous inside, too.

This did bother me even though I love the buildings - but then I saw the one made out of recycled phone books and I'm bothered no longer! Also, I can see worn out text books or tech manuals or bodice rippers being used as well...

I think the children's playhouse is amazing, I work as a children's librarian and want one in our children's area :)

Finally, something 'constructive' to do with all of my magazines! What fabulous ideas Flavorpill brings to us. Thank you!

The children in Iowa library must be so pleased with their playhouse, I wish I had one of those to play in. What a unique idea to stimulate an interest in books!

It's not wasteful to give things a second life as art. If it was art or the recycling bin, I'll take art. What's amazing to me is that everything but the house of phone books and tower of babel seems to have been constructed without glue, nails, bolts...no books were harmed in the building of these structures; they could be dismantled and distributed. That'd be pretty awesome.

Perhaps if the artists had read any of those books they would feel disinclined to waste them on form without function.

While in general I agree that books should be read, if the books used for these projects were damaged or outdated, I wouldn't consider it a waste. I see these as recycling on an impressive level.

This is a waste of books. So many people could have been educated....

we'd be better off reading them.

Cool- where can I find the architectural plans?