new use of a historic building in the Salamanca area

Today, Monday, on Calle Goya, 52, new works begin, so old TB dispensarydesigned by Amos Salvador Carreras, a prestigious architect, thinker and politician from Logroño, has once again become a place where the sick come in search of healing.

The work in this building, declared technically demolished in 2022, aims to revive this space and secure the Salamanca area new health center. The reform undertaken by the Community of Madrid will be carried out through Planifica Madrid, whose activities are aimed at the management of works and infrastructure orders in the area of ​​local administration and other projects entrusted to it by the Community of Madrid, as well as the management of urbanized land.

After the completion of the building Goya, 52 This will be the 14th medical center in the Salamanca area.according to the Community of Madrid.

In this sense, the Minister of the President, Justice and Local Government, Miguel Angel García Martin, stated Community interest in the use of emblematic buildings to improve the quality of life of the people of Madrid: “This project is a prime example of how an urban heritage can be protected and at the same time find practical benefits.”

The works consist of the demolition of the main building, conservation and stabilization of symbolic facades. Surface 800 square meters distributed over three floors and a basementdemolition work will be carried out with particular care to protect adjacent buildings and ensure proper waste management. Scaffolding or trusses will be needed at this stage, as they will connect facades to adjacent buildings, no need for permanent structures and easier excavation for parking spaces.

rehabilitation there will be a company responsible for carrying out most of the reconstruction. A limited liability company that has been hired by various public administrations in the past to restore historic buildings, especially in Almería where it has restored the church of Adra, the wall of San Cristobal and the baths of the Alcazaba detachment.

In the capital, they believe that their work duration five months. During this period, the Community of Madrid assures that “they will carefully monitor the condition of neighboring buildings, such as fighting cracks. In addition, they will pay special attention to waste management and recycling.

For more than two decades, the building remained abandoned. He was briefly squatted in the late 2000s. and its ephemeral inhabitants reported a building in poor condition, in which, among other things, even some sections were missing.

Building, built between 1926 and 1928 by an architect from Logroño.originally conceived as Tuberculosis Dispensary of Social Welfare. Even though it has become obsolete for this purpose in a short time, its rationalistic and neo-Mudéjar façades they are declared partially protected 3 and must be restored respecting the main façade using special scaffolding.

Amos Salvador Carreras is also the author of other iconic buildings of the capital, as well as the reconstruction of a tobacco factory, a four-story rectangular building with balconies and windows in the Lavapies area. Unlike the ambulatory at Goya, its main entrance is adorned with two columns and a balcony above it with a coat of arms. It has a large walled patio next to it that overlooks the Embajadores roundabout. At the moment, the building is known as La Tabacalera and hosts exhibitions and cultural events, although it is also currently undergoing restoration work.

Another great structure built by this builder was known as new Gal Factory -the old one was on the nearby street Ferras-, in Moncloa. The building that housed this production had an area of ​​4700 square meters, and, like the old tuberculosis dispensary, its architecture was different modernist and neomudejar. The building aroused the curiosity of the people of Madrid to such an extent that the architect was awarded by the City Council of Madrid in 1915.the year of the opening of this factory, which began to produce the famous soap Hay from Praviawhich are still on sale.

Unfortunately, it was completely destroyed 21 years after opening.. Its location close to the front during the early stages of the Civil War made it a victim of bombing and Francoist artillery, as was located next to the Moncloa-Ciudad-Universitaria defense line. which the republican side defended Madrid until its capitulation in 1939.

Famous architect and minister in the government of Azaña

Amos Salvador Carreras He graduated as an architect and opened his office on Tetouan Street. In addition to the outstanding and laureate town planner, was a freethinker and an active intellectual.

Joined Ateneo de Madridwhere he established relationships with prominent figures of the time such as Manuel Azaña and Cipriano Rivas Cherif. In 1903 founded the People’s University of Madrid and went repeatedly elected deputy in different districts.

A political career that reached its climax when became Minister of the Interior from February to May 1936 chaired by Manuel Azaña, with whom shared a close friendship. After the Civil War, he went into exile in France, Caracas and New York.