40°25′10″N3°41′43″W / 40.419356°N 3.695319°W / 40.419356; -3.695319 (Edificio de Las Cariátides)
Current tenants
Instituto Cervantes (October 11, 2006-)
Construction started
1911
Completed
1918
Renovated
1944-1953
Owner
Government of Spain
Height
25 meters
Technical details
Floor count
3
Floor area
18,000 m²
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Antonio Palacios Joaquín Otamendi Manuel Cabanyes
Structural engineer
Ángel Chueca Sainz
Other designers
Manuel Cabanyes
Edificio de Las Cariátides (English: Caryatid Building) is a building in the Spanish capital of Madrid built by Spanish architect, Antonio Palacios. The building was later the head office of the Central Bank and later of the Santander Bank. As of 2006 it is the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes.
Cariátides (English: CaryatidBuilding) is a building in the Spanish capital of Madrid built by Spanish architect, Antonio Palacios. The building was later the...
A caryatid (/ˌkɛəriˈætɪd/ or /ˌkæriˈætɪd/ KAIR-ee-AT-id or KARR-ee-AT-id; Ancient Greek: Καρυᾶτις, pl. Καρυάτιδες) is a sculpted female figure serving...
of the presence of the vault in the basement of its headquarters (CaryatidBuilding) in Madrid (Spain), uses safe deposit boxes for great figures of Hispanic...
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the bronze sphere has become a memorial for the attacks. The spherical caryatid was installed in Battery Park between 2002 and 2017, when the Port Authority...
identity of the korai. In the building accounts they are referred to as korai or maidens. The lower arms of all the caryatids have been lost. In 1952 the...
square piers divided each bay. Four 16-foot-tall (4.9 m) black copper caryatids by Bitter, representing human races, flanked the 12th-story windows. A...
Stuart and Revett in 1754). In modern times they are commonly known as the Caryatids of Salonica, and also Elgins of Thessaloniki based on their removal in...
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antiquities collection is a bas-relief from Persepolis, and a colossal caryatid from Eleusis known as the Saint Demetra. There is also the largest collection...
with iron cresting and decorative caryatids and gargoyles. With the Second Empire Town Hall Administration building like the Town Hall being set back...
pediment is supported by two caryatids instead of plain columns. Below the pediment runs a continuous frieze. The building is 8.27 metres long and 6.09...
(Ruabon) Ltd, the interior also of terracotta is decorated with griffins and caryatids, although heated it was never actually used as was intended to house parrots...
completed in 1867, with the Foundry of Val d'Osne casting the four external caryatid style torchère statues. These were based on two repeated beaux-arts neoclassical...
The third floor facing the Grand Staircase is supported by two pairs of caryatids (columns sculpted as female figures) with each figure holding a scroll...
Slavic word for walnut. The village of Karyes is the birthplace of the six caryatid maidens which are featured in architecture in the place of columns on the...
from the entrance vestibule on the Rue du Midi/Zuidstraat includes four caryatids by Rodin and Antoine van Rasbourg [nl], symbolising Protection, Trade...
side of a wall. Capital The topmost member of a column (or pilaster). Caryatid A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the...