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Raleigh County Sheriff’s Department

Scope

New Construction

Location

Beckley, WV

size

27,400 gsf

awards

Citation Award - AIA West Virginia

The Raleigh County Commission selected Silling Architects to design a new headquarters for the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Department located in Beckley, West Virginia. The Sheriff’s Department has outgrown their headquarters which was a former WV State Police detachment facility. Silling Architects worked closely with representatives from the County and Sheriff’s Department to perform programming services and develop a graphic test-fit in order to demonstrate how the program could fit in a new building located on the purchased property.
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Highlighted spaces to aid in officer mental and physical health are a large patrol room with a glass façade providing natural light for the officers’ workstations and a fitness room with a glass façade with views to an outdoor space accessible by officers and staff.

The project is nicely executed and the result is clean and un-muddled. Interior and exterior vocabularies and execution are equal in their consideration. Strategic expanses of glass make the building welcoming from the exterior and enhance the interior experience of both the daily user and the visitor.

2024 Juror Comments - AIA West Virginia

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