The phrase "building style" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the architectural design or aesthetic characteristics of a building or group of buildings.
Example: "The building style of the new library reflects modern architectural trends while incorporating elements of the surrounding landscape."
Alternatives: "architectural style" or "design style."
Rayonnant style, French building style (13th century) that represents the height of Gothic architecture.
Byzantine architecture, Building style of Constantinople (now Istanbul, formerly ancient Byzantium) after ad 330.
As a building style, the average conservatory normally enjoys all the mock-Victorian characteristics it can muster: finials, mouldings, crestings.
Akbar period architecture, building style that developed in India under the patronage of the Mughal emperor Akbar (reigned 1556 1605).
Mozarabic architecture, building style of Christians who stayed in the Iberian Peninsula after the Arab invasion of 711 ce.
This building style helped make their structures resistant to earthquakes, which are frequent along the Pacific coastline.
In the early 1900s, it adopted a unified building style--the Spanish Pueblo Revival look--to the keep the city distinctive, which is why, even today, you may feel like you have entered a different country or time period as you stroll through the streets downtown.
He was widely acclaimed for his consensus-building style in that role.
He said she had impressed her colleagues — and him — "by the way in which she had reached out and solicited many views, and her consensus-building style".
That weekly, step-by-step examination of elaborate murders is told in the suspense-building style familiar to fans of "48 Hours Mysteries" and "Dateline".
Mr. Person has an elastic, sequential solo-building style that links him to Sonny Rollins, and a fat, breathy tone that links him to Ben Webster.
