Buffalo City Court Building

Year
1974
Style
Brutalism
City
Buffalo, NY
Buffalo City Court Building
Photo: David Schalliol via sah1365, CC BY 2.0
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The Buffalo City Court Building is a downtown civic building completed in 1974 in the Brutalist style, its massive concrete facade highly visible from the sidewalk. It stands as a typological example of 1970s civic Brutalism in Buffalo.

the building

Concrete civic facade. The 1974 courthouse presents a massive, highly visible concrete facade to the sidewalk, typical of civic Brutalism of its era.

the style

The building is an example of Brutalist architecture, a style used here for a 1970s civic courthouse.

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