Ambulance Station

A small period piece of mainstream municipal modernism tucked away in a hidden part of Salford. Now absorbed into the structures of the Greater Manchester Ambulance Service, the building was part of the state apparatus of the borough, when smaller council units had much more direct control of emergency services. The dark engineering brick is punctured by an irregular pattern of windows and neat slots are detailed into the perimeter walls. Ostensibly functional, the small gestures that show the hand of an architect typify many such buildings clearly influenced by Stirling and Gowan.