Cultural Building sights in Mexico City
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Unidad Bibliográfica
Houses part of Mexico's National Library; it's about 200m north of the Centro Cultural. A short distance east of the library is the university sculpture garden, with a trail leading through volcanic fields past a dozen or so innovative pieces. The most formidable work, by sculptor Mathias Goeritz, is found just north of the cultural complex: an enormous ring of concrete blocks surround an exposed section of the lava bed upon which the university was built.
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Biblioteca Central
As you enter the northern part of the campus from Insurgentes, it's easy to spot the Central Library - 10 floors high, almost windowless and covered on every side with colorful, complicatedly symbolic mosaics by Juan O'Gorman. The south wall, with two prominent zodiac wheels, covers colonial times, while the north wall deals with Aztec culture.
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