{{short description|Building in Madrid, Spain}} {{Infobox building | image = Ministerio de Sanidad de España (Madrid) 14.jpg | address = Paseo del Prado, 20 | architect = Francisco de Asís Cabrero<br />Rafael de Aburto | location = Cortes, Madrid | location_country = Spain | construction_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,<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> == Description == Located in front of the Prado Museum, it features a central prismatic 16-floor brick tower,<ref>{{Harvnb|Amaya Quer|2010|pp=121-122}}; {{Harvnb|González Capitel|1999|p=75}}</ref> that reaches a 60-metre height.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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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== Bibliography == * {{Cite book|last=Amaya Quer|first=Àlex|publisher=Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona|location=Bellaterra|title=El acelerón sindicalista: discurso social, imagen y realidad del aparato de propaganda de la organización sindical española, 1957-1969|others=Carme Molinero Ruiz (Dir.)|year=2010|url=https://www.tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/10803/4822/aaq1de1.pdf;jsessionid=1EF6EE343F641372EA206F85251A9B7F?sequence=1}} * {{cite journal|journal=Estudios Geográficos|volume=LXXVII|issue=281|pages=415–442|year=2016|issn=0014-1496|doi=10.3989/estgeogr.201613|first1=Elia|last1=Canosa Zamora|first2=Ángela|last2=García Carballo|title=Madrid Km 0. La intervención franquista en la construcción de algunos paisajes simbólicos de la capital|location=Madrid|publisher=Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas|doi-access=free}} * {{Cite book|last=González Capitel|first=Antón|year=1999|chapter=Las décadas oscuras: arquitectura de Madrid 1941-1960|title=Arquitectura de Madrid, siglo XX|publisher=Tanais|chapter-url=http://oa.upm.es/45609/1/Decadas_Oscuras.pdf|location=Madrid|pages=72–101|isbn=84-496-0078-2}} * {{Cite journal|year=2014|last=López Díaz|first=Jesús|title=El papel del fascismo y el falangismo en la recepción de la modernidad en la arquitectura española contemporánea|publisher=Universidad Complutense de Madrid|location=Madrid|journal=Anales de Historia del Arte|volume=24|pages=237–252|doi=10.5209/rev_ANHA.2014.v24.48703|url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ANHA/article/viewFile/48703/45477|doi-access=free}} * {{Cite journal|first=Olivia|last=Muñoz-Rojas|journal=Journal of War & Culture Studies|issn=1752-6272|title=Falangist visions of a neo-imperial Madrid|year=2009|volume=2|issue=3|pages=335–352|doi=10.1386/jwcs.2.3.335/1|s2cid=145481193}} * {{Cite journal|url=https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2099/2127/17.pdf|title=El Edificio de la Delegación Nacional de Sindicatos|first=Josep Maria|last=Rovira|publisher=Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona|journal=DC. Revista de crítica arquitectònica|year=2001|issue=5–6|issn=1887-2360}}
== Links == * {{Commons category-inline|Casa Sindical, Madrid}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20181005003512/http://212.145.146.10/biblioteca/fondos/ingra2014/index.htm#inm.F1.369 Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo] at Fundación Arquitectura COAM webpage
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