House of the Book, Modernist commercial building in the city centre of Poznań, Poland
Dom Książki is a seven-storey reinforced-concrete commercial building at ul. Gwarna 13 in central Poznań, completed in 1975 to designs by Bogdan Bednarek and Zygmunt Łomski. Its skeleton frame carries a facade of high-quality ceramic tiles divided into six horizontal bands of windows. The glazed bookshop pavilion is set back from the street at ground level, leaving wide openings on both sides toward the courtyard.
The reinforced-concrete, skeleton-framed building with seven storeys was completed in 1975, designed by Bogdan Bednarek and Zygmunt Łomski. After opening, the Dom Książki was one of the most modern bookstores in Poland. In 2023 the developer Constructa Plus owned it, and revitalisation by Piotr Marciniak's studio was planned for 2024, converting six floors into 36 flats, a bookstore, a shared space and a courtyard garden. In 2025 the Bookowski bookstore and the Strona restaurant opened on the ground floor.
The name refers to the bookshop that opened here in 1975, then one of Poland's most modern. In 2025 a Bookowski bookshop and the Strona restaurant opened on the ground floor, so the building again sells books and serves food.
The building stands at ul. Gwarna 13 in central Poznań, next to the Okrąglak, Domar, Alfa department stores and Hotel Lech. The glazed bookshop pavilion is set back from the street, with wide openings on both sides leading to the courtyard. A ground-floor bookshop and restaurant opened in 2025.
The ground floor is set back from the street as a glazed book pavilion, with wide open passages on both sides leading into the courtyard — Le Corbusier's free-ground-floor idea built in 1975. The ceramic tile cladding was noted for its high quality.
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