(RobertContrer– flickr/creative commons license) Rogelio Salmona designed the Biblioteca Virgilio Barco in Bogota Colombia. It was completed in 2003 just a few years before Salmona’s death. Lawns of greenery, great strips of colorful mosaics, and flowing pools of water fill …
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Juan Manuel Pelaez renovated the Plaza Cisneros in Medellin, Colombia, next to the EPM Library, in 2005. French architect Carlos Emilio Carré designed many of the surrounding buildings in the late nineteenth century and the original square was built in …
The Edificio Inteligente building now holds Columbia’s utility company EPM. The massive structure for 5,000 employees is called the “intelligent building” because of its many ‘smart’ feature. A moat full of fountains surrounds the building to suppress fire in the …
(Universidad EAFIT– flickr/creative commons license) The magnificant Biblioteca Parque España by Giancarlo Mazzanti stands like a castle hewn out of solid black rock, perched about Santo Domingo Columbia. The project was completed in 2007. The valley is circumvented by …