A style question.

[SteveAitch]

Of the architectural variety.

Anyone like to hazard a guess at what style this building is?
Staines Police Station - 3 by SteveAitch, on Flickr

Nor really Modernist, not weird enough. And not Brutalist. Definitely 20th century - the police moved in in 1998, from their old Victorian Bland style old station.

 

[The Man]

First thing that hit me was a kind of Asian/Japanese feel to the roofing design.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

I'd call it '90's commercial building click and drag.

The way it differs from, say, another Holiday Inn is the ground floor faux stonework trying to be Georgian, while presumably being very solid and resistant to vehicle ramming. Not a bad compromise giving something to look at on a human scale from street level while basically being a terrorist-resistant bunker.

The upper floors are just like any commercial property with a few flourishes of fake balconies and pointless dormers to reduce the monotony of the brick curtain.

 

[SteveAitch]

"another Holiday Inn"?

Well, they do have a custody suite (entrance round the right hand side) but it's not the sort of place I'd like to spend much time in!

 

[Jack by the hedge]

... but it's not the sort of place I'd like to spend much time in!

There you go, then.

 

[JayUtah]

Brick-over-stone says Georgian. Round keystoned arch says Renaissance Revival. Inset roof windows and interrupted eaves say American Prairie style.

So it's Late AutoCAD Cut-and-Paste.

 

[Thermal]

I'm going with the under appreciated "Unimaginative Architect" style.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Post-post-modern Neo-Georgian.

 

[novaphile]

It looks like it has been built to be defended, so I'm going with:

"Prison modern".

Note that there seems to be a lot of that in suburban architecture these days, weird homes with nothing but a double roller door facing the street, and an overhanging building above.

 

[Carlotta]

It looks like it has been built to be defended, so I'm going with:

"Prison modern".

Note that there seems to be a lot of that in suburban architecture these days, weird homes with nothing but a double roller door facing the street, and an overhanging building above.

I tend to call these “garage-front” houses.

 

[gabeygoat]

Orphia Nay-Post-post-modern Neo-Georgian.

this sounds about right to me. though I'm pretty ignorant of these things. It looks like a lot of the city govt buildings where I live.

 

[Thermal]

"I want a box. Throw some ◊◊◊◊ on there so it doesn't look too cheap. Oh, and low maintainence."

*architect includes a solid ring of windows up near the roofline*

"You ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊."

 

[theprestige]

Of the architectural variety.

Anyone like to hazard a guess at what style this building is?
Staines Police Station - 3 by SteveAitch, on Flickr

Nor really Modernist, not weird enough. And not Brutalist. Definitely 20th century - the police moved in in 1998, from their old Victorian Bland style old station.

I keep wanting to like it, but I just can't.

It's like the architect didn't want to be accused of making a statement, so he asked an AI to generate a pastiche of different styles.

That roofline is pure uncanny valley. And that's before we get to the misaligned building? wing? to the left.

I'm always in the mood for clerestory windows, but these just don't do it. Every time my eye finds a pleasing line to follow, it ends up at those ridiculous balconies.

The arched entrance clashes with the rectangular windows. The windows themselves seem too small for the facade they punctuate.

The colorway is nice, I guess.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Of the architectural variety.

Anyone like to hazard a guess at what style this building is?
Staines Police Station - 3 by SteveAitch, on Flickr

Nor really Modernist, not weird enough. And not Brutalist. Definitely 20th century - the police moved in in 1998, from their old Victorian Bland style old station.

State McMansion?

 

[Helen]

Has the architect (?) never heard of proportions? Such an itty bitty little roof on top of such a huge stack of bricks - even the house itself looks as if it is screaming in shock with that door/mouth; a Munch house. And why a curve around the door when there are no corresponding curves anywhere else? The proportions are really badly off, everything looks reasonably normal for the first few floors, but then there's nothing, and more nothing, and even more nothing, all of it topped off by that jaunty little hat of a roof sitting on a colossus. Very strange. But I think whoever dreamt it up at least tried quite hard, so maybe an also-ran consolation prize?

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Things aren't much better in Ireland to be honest. Below is my place of work Anglesea St Garda Station:

The beigey building in behind to the left is the fire station (in probably the worst possible location in the whole of Cork for one).

PS: Above ground floor the building is hollow in the centre.