WhoIsTheLeader: Architecture Question

[Rusty Vandura]

Apart from possibly tasteless, how might you tag the architectural aspects of this building? Faux Craftsman, perhaps?

[flatisflat]

Colorway looks like it could be appropriately called 'Faux Craftsman'.
Architecture style I'd label as post-modern -- all "line, plane, mass" and boring...

[ranwhenparked]

@flatisflat amorphous postmodern with Craftsman-like faux stone slathered on it, since postmodern by itself is too '80s/'90s and the "modern farmhouse" thing is hot right now

[Rusty Vandura]

@flatisflat Is "colorway" a thing? It seems to me that craftsman is something we're seeing a lot of these days.

[Rusty Vandura]

@ranwhenparked So, "craftsman-like." For an amorphous commercial building, I think it looks not unattractive.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

Not exactly faux craftsman but very corporate and bland. The solar shading details are marginally interesting but overall it reminds me of the tacked on stonework you see on a lot of subdivision houses except on a standard issue corporate office building.

I'm still a first year, of course, but I'd call it a particularly unremarkable example of an international style corporate office building, probably medical based, with some somewhat tacky stone detailing. It's not bad, per say, but it's entirely unremarkable.

[ranwhenparked]

@rusty-vandura Not unattractive, no. You could certainly do worse

• this is a very flattering picture of one of my state's government buildings.
  

[VincentMalamute]

I like @WhoIsTheLeader 's International style comment. A mix of International and Brutalism.

I don't think it's tacky or tasteless but more that it looks of it's age. It looks 60's, 70's. Those haven't aged well.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@vincentmalamute I would reckon a good bit newer than that. Looks 2010s to me. That particular brick detailing and the general color palette screams recent medical building to me in particular. I don't think that particular way they've done the brick will age well.

I'd expect exposed concrete for a mix of brutalist details but I think that's just large gray tiles. If it is concrete from 50 years ago, it wouldn't look that pristine.

[flatisflat]

@rusty-vandura I do see 'colorway' used more often in fashion / clothing, etc. but it is a thing. More or less is interchangeable with 'color palette' as far as I'm aware.