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2001 · Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia

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Seed wave 46 image for Virgilio Barco Library.

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Virgilio Barco Library

Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia · Exact work coordinates

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Field	Virgilio Barco Library 2001 · Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Joseph Poelaert 1850 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2001	1850
Place	Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Place context	Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Representative site: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Climate	16°C · 12.3h daylight · 12 km/h wind	12°C · 14.2h daylight · 16 km/h wind · via Church of Our Lady of Laeken
Focus	Library	5 works in corpus
Architects	Rogelio Salmona Rogelio Salmona	Joseph Poelaert
Linked context	Bureaus Rogelio Salmona	Notable works Church of Our Lady of Laeken Palace of Justice, Brussels Church of St. Catherine, Brussels La Monnaie
Typologies	library civic building	church sacred space courthouse civic building monumental architecture house performance venue
Materials	brick	stone
Carbon signals	Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.