It's from 1972 and it used to be bare concrete, but it got painted gray and brownish orange in the early 2010s.

It is the "Forsyth County Public Safety Center" and at first I assumed it was a jail, but no: It contains the offices of the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office and an emergency operations center, according to paywalled reports in the Winston-Salem Journal, which I read in a database at a university library. According to those same reports, it was formerly a commercial office building named the Phillips Building, and for a time was used as an operations center for Wachovia bank. It was acquired by the county government in 2009, and remodeled in 2011-2013.

Here, see a picture of the building from 2012, shortly before it was painted.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Forsyth County Public Safety Center (built in 1972 as the Phillips Building, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of East 3rd Street and North Chestnut Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Forsyth (county) (2001494)
• Winston-Salem (7014637)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• administration buildings (300007049)
• brownish orange (300126858)
• Brutalist (300112048)
• commercial buildings (300005147)
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• public buildings (governmental buildings) (300008059)
• remodeling (300135427)
• repurposing (300417716)

Wikidata items:
• 2 April 2023 (Q69306756)
• 1970s in architecture (Q17173162)
• 1972 in architecture (Q2812585)
• 2010s in architecture (Q60996027)
• April 2 (Q2511)
• April 2023 (Q61313055)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• county government (Q106513499)
• Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District (Q121261745)
• Forsyth County Sheriff's Office (Q121503858)
• Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area (Q112612612)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• Piedmont (Q426977)
• Piedmont Triad (Q3067058)
• sheriff's office (Q96080490)
• Wachovia (Q1415262)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Buildings—Remodeling for other use (sh85017791)
• Public buildings—North Carolina (sh94007630)

Taken in: United States / North Carolina / Winston Township / Winston-Salem (show map)

Taken on: April 2, 2023

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Sets appears in: • Winston-Salem, city of chainsmoking Winstons and Salems. • Things of seventies.

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