More Seen from the Car

This interesting ship-like Brutalist building is the Best Western Summerhill Hotel, on Lang Stracht in Aberdeen.

The hotel was designed in 1968 by architects Baxter Clark and Paul. Again, I suspect this one looked better on the drawing board. The top is the hotel, beneath, a rather depressing arcade of shops.

The design is described as 'a response to vernacular fishing villages' but is more like a response to a giant oil service vessel, which is appropriate to Aberdeen. This one is a love/hate building and it's hard to say where I fall, perhaps impressed/appalled would be closest.