Edificio Santalaia
Edificio Santalaia in Bogota, Colombia is one of the coolest vertical gardens in the world. With over 33,000 Sq. feet of plants, it’s a living building.
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Salt Cathedral
Salt Cathedral is the duo of Juliana Ronderos and Nicolas Losada, born in Colombia and now based in Brooklyn, New York. Enjoy their new track “Always There When I Need You.”
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Systema Solar
Systema Solar is a musical-visual collective from the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Their third album, Rumba a Tierra, is out now on Nacional Records.
Peace in Colombia
The Civil War in Colombia seems to have come to an end. The Colombian government and the FARC rebels announced that a cease fire would begin on August 29th.
Doris Salcedo in Chicago and Beyond
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) is presenting the first retrospective of the work of renowned sculptor Doris Salcedo. The exhibition will be on view at the MCA from February 21–May 24, 2015 and then will travel to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 26–October 14, 2015.
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“Bring IT On” in Colombia
Colombia has unveiled “Bring IT On”, a new PR campaign to promote the country as an international leader for IT services and solutions.
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Colombian Roscones Recipe
Diana from the website Sweet y Salado shows us how to make two Colombian favorites, guava paste roscones (bocadillo) and dulce de leche roscones (arequipe).
Gabriel García Márquez
Nobel-Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez died on April 17th in Mexico City at age 87. The Colombian novelist “widely considered the most popular Spanish-language writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century,” was a master of the literary genre magic realism.
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Colombian Dinosaur Discovered
What started as a routine pipe installation in the town of Villa De Leyva, Colombia turned into an amazing discovery of a Colombian Dinosaur.