The Casa Sindical (the "Syndical House")[1] is a building in Madrid, Spain. It currently hosts the headquarters of the Ministry of Health of Spain.
| Casa Sindical | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Cortes, Madrid |
| Address | Paseo del Prado, 20 |
| Country | Spain |
| Construction started | 1949 |
| Completed | 1951 |
| Inaugurated | 27 October 1955 |
| Height | 60 m |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 16 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Francisco de Asís Cabrero Rafael de Aburto |
History
editThe contest guidelines for the draft project, convened by Fermín Sanz Orrio, the then national delegate of trade unions of FET y de las JONS, were published in April 1949.[2] The project was finally entrusted ex-aequo to Francisco de Asís Cabrero and Rafael de Aburto.[3] Finished in 1951,[4] some dependencies were opened in July 1955, taking advantage of the celebration of the III National Congress of Workers.[5][n. 1] It was formally inaugurated by Francisco Franco on 27 October 1955.[6]
Description
editLocated in front of the Prado Museum, it features a central prismatic 16-floor brick tower,[7] that reaches a 60-metre height.[8] The landmark symbolically marked the acceptance of modern architecture by the Francoist regime in terms of architectural language, straying away from previous traditionalist aesthetics.[9] It has often been linked to the works of Italian Fascist architect Giuseppe Terragni.[10]
Notes
edit- ^ José Antonio Girón de Velasco, the Falangist minister of Labour, declared then 'this modern and arrogant tower, claims to the 4 poles of the horizon that the "Movement" is in movement'.[5]
References
edit- ^ Muñoz-Rojas 2009, p. 347.
- ^ Rovira 2001, p. 149.
- ^ González Capitel 1999, p. 75.
- ^ "Casa Sindical de Madrid". Docomomo Ibérico.
- ^ a b Amaya Quer 2010, pp. 121–122.
- ^ "S. E. el Jefe del estado inauguró ayer la nueva sede de los Sindicatos españoles". La Vanguardia. 28 October 1955.
- ^ Amaya Quer 2010, pp. 121–122; González Capitel 1999, p. 75
- ^ "Hoy será inaugurado el nuevo edificio de la Delegación Nacional de Sindicatos". ABC. Madrid: 45. 27 October 1945.
- ^ Canosa Zamora & García Carballo 2016, p. 423.
- ^ López Díaz 2014, pp. 248–249.
Bibliography
edit- Amaya Quer, Àlex (2010). El acelerón sindicalista: discurso social, imagen y realidad del aparato de propaganda de la organización sindical española, 1957-1969. Carme Molinero Ruiz (Dir.). Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
- Canosa Zamora, Elia; García Carballo, Ángela (2016). "Madrid Km 0. La intervención franquista en la construcción de algunos paisajes simbólicos de la capital". Estudios Geográficos. LXXVII (281). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: 415–442. doi:10.3989/estgeogr.201613. ISSN 0014-1496.
- González Capitel, Antón (1999). "Las décadas oscuras: arquitectura de Madrid 1941-1960" (PDF). Arquitectura de Madrid, siglo XX. Madrid: Tanais. pp. 72–101. ISBN 84-496-0078-2.
- López Díaz, Jesús (2014). "El papel del fascismo y el falangismo en la recepción de la modernidad en la arquitectura española contemporánea". Anales de Historia del Arte. 24. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid: 237–252. doi:10.5209/rev_ANHA.2014.v24.48703.
- Muñoz-Rojas, Olivia (2009). "Falangist visions of a neo-imperial Madrid". Journal of War & Culture Studies. 2 (3): 335–352. doi:10.1386/jwcs.2.3.335/1. ISSN 1752-6272. S2CID 145481193.
- Rovira, Josep Maria (2001). "El Edificio de la Delegación Nacional de Sindicatos" (PDF). DC. Revista de crítica arquitectònica (5–6). Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona. ISSN 1887-2360.
Links
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