Ministry Of The Air (Spain)
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General Headquarters Of The Air And Space Force
The General Headquarters of the Air and Space Force ( es, Cuartel General del Ejército del Aire y del Espacio, links=no), also known in Spanish as the ''Ministerio del Aire'' (after Ministry of the Air (Spain), the institution it formerly hosted), is a building in Madrid, Spain. History Once the Spanish Civil War had ended with the Francoist faction's victory and after the requirement of a smallholding for the construction of the Ministry of the Air Force's headquarters in 1939 filed by Juan Vigón, the plot of land on where the Cárcel Modelo, Modelo Prison lied was chosen and ceded as building site. In order to present the project, the architect, Luis Gutiérrez Soto, traveled to Rome and Berlin to study buildings with a similar purpose, elaborating an initial draft reminiscent of Paul Ludwig Troost and Albert Speer's works. His project was reworked several times, discarding the neoclassicist elements, and ultimately, pandering to the imperial historicism sought by the Francoi ...
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