Welcome to a jewel in Calgary's architectural landscape: the Central Library in the neighbourhood of East Village. This building has won multiple awards for its beauty and design and made lists of top places to visit in the world. The Central Library was designed by two architectural firms: Norway's Snøhetta and Canada's Dialog. The building opened to the public in 2018.
Calgary Central Library at night
The exterior of the building features The Archway, an outdoor thoroughfare that connects East Village to Calgary's downtown while taking visitors over the C-Train line that runs underneath the library. The Archway's name and curved walls, which are made of red cedar from British Columbia, are inspired by the chinook arch phenomenon that frequently occurs in Calgary. To access The Archway on the east side of the building, you can take the stairs up or use the elevator slightly south of the stairs. On the west side, you'll find both a ramp and stairs. The interior of the building is also 100 per cent accessible for all visitors with ramps and elevators. The library's main entrance is located north on The Archway.
The Archway
on a C-Train in the tunnel under the library: photo courtesy of royal rogues son
You'll also find three statues outside, appropriately titled Trio. The royal rogues son says these statues remind him of drinking bird toys with their movements, and this is the sort of whimsy and fun Trio's artist, Christian Moeller, means to evoke with these statues. This cache's coordinates have taken you to 2/3 of the Trio statues. The other 1/3 of Trio is on the east side of the building at ground level.
The task to successfully complete and log this virtual is to post a photo with your Found It log that includes 1) this 2/3 of the Trio statues and 2) you/all or part of your geocaching team, your GPS, your geodog, your bike, a piece of paper with your geocaching handle written on it, and/or some other visual way of proving you were at the cache coordinates.
royal rogues son with 2/3 of Trio at this virtual's coordinates
the other 1/3 of Trio on the east side of the library
The library interior boasts beautiful architecture and public art such as in the collage below. This is a small sample of what you might see inside:
Central Library interior collage
About Virtual Rewards 3.0 - 2022-2023:
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between March 1, 2022 and March 1, 2023. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 3.0 on the Geocaching Blog.