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title: "Virgilio Barco, Bogotá — GetMap"
description: "Its brick walls curve around open courtyards. Red brick bends into a circular library with ramps, terraces, and open courtyards. Rogelio Salmona designed…"
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# Virgilio Barco

Its brick walls curve around open courtyards

Art · 🇨🇴 Bogotá · one place, one stop

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Red brick bends into a circular library with ramps, terraces, and open courtyards. Rogelio Salmona designed the building so paths, water channels, and planted spaces lead around and into it, making the public library part of the surrounding park rather than a box set apart from it.

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