Casa Sindical

{{Infobox building

| image = Ministerio de Sanidad de España (Madrid) 14.jpg

| address = Paseo del Prado, 20

| architect = Francisco de Asís Cabrero
Rafael de Aburto

| location = Cortes, Madrid

| location_country = Spain

| start_date = 1949

| completion_date = 1951

| floor_count = 16

| inauguration_date = 27 October 1955

| height = 60 m

}}

The Casa Sindical (the "Syndical House"){{sfn|Muñoz-Rojas|2009|p=347}} is a building in Madrid, Spain. It currently hosts the headquarters of the Ministry of Health of Spain.

History

The 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.{{Sfn|Rovira|2001|p=149}} The project was finally entrusted ex-aequo to Francisco de Asís Cabrero and Rafael de Aburto.{{Sfn|González Capitel|1999|p=75}} Finished in 1951,{{Cite web|url=http://www.docomomoiberico.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1516:casa-sindical-de-madrid&lang=es|title=Casa Sindical de Madrid|publisher=Docomomo Ibérico}} some dependencies were opened in July 1955, taking advantage of the celebration of the III National Congress of Workers.{{Sfn|Amaya Quer|2010|pp=121-122}}{{refn|group=n.|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'.{{Sfn|Amaya Quer|2010|pp=121-122}}}} It was formally inaugurated by Francisco Franco on 27 October 1955.{{Cite journal|journal=La Vanguardia|url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1955/10/28/pagina-3/32790999/pdf.html|date=28 October 1955|title=S. E. el Jefe del estado inauguró ayer la nueva sede de los Sindicatos españoles}}

Description

Located in front of the Prado Museum, it features a central prismatic 16-floor brick tower,{{Harvnb|Amaya Quer|2010|pp=121-122}}; {{Harvnb|González Capitel|1999|p=75}} that reaches a 60-metre height.{{Cite journal|journal=ABC|title=Hoy será inaugurado el nuevo edificio de la Delegación Nacional de Sindicatos|url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1955/10/27/045.html|location=Madrid|date=27 October 1945|page=45}} The landmark symbolically marked the acceptance of modern architecture by the Francoist regime in terms of architectural language, straying away from previous traditionalist aesthetics.{{sfn|Canosa Zamora|García Carballo|2016|p=423}} It has often been linked to the works of Italian Fascist architect Giuseppe Terragni.{{Sfn|López Díaz|2014|pp=248-249}}

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