Gothic Revival: Town Halls and Courthouses

A public building on a street corner. The facade features continuous pointed arch windows and vertical line bundles, with a tall clock tower in the center. The ground floor has an arcade, and above it are sculpted escutcheons and an inscription band. The stone color is grayish, and the roof has cast iron ridge ornaments. The scale is significantly larger than the surrounding commercial buildings.
Avoid: using neoclassical colonnades and domes, shrinking the clock tower to lose its landmark status, lacking depth in the facade's arcade, making the building's scale consistent with its surroundings.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟街角的公共建築。立面有連續的尖拱窗與垂直線束,中央是一座高鐘塔,底層是拱廊,上方有雕刻的紋章與銘文帶。石材的顏色偏灰,屋頂有鑄鐵的脊飾。尺度明顯大於周邊的商業建築。避免:使用新古典的柱廊與圓頂、把鐘塔縮小到失去地標性、立面缺少拱廊的深度、讓建築的尺度與周邊一致。