New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

£15.00
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New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

A listed curiosity, in black-and-white Risograph by Spaceplay

New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

£15.00

3 FOR 2 ON ALL RISOGRAPH PRINTS

A3 Risograph Print with border
Print Size: 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Print Style: Black and White Risograph
Paper Style: Heavy weight textured cream
Sold unframed and posted in a tube
Based on my original photograpy

A risograph portrait of the signal box corner, taken from below. Affordable, sustainable wall art for anyone who's finally stopped and looked up at it properly.

Real printed artwork without the gallery price

Low-impact printing with soy-based inks

Grain and textures perfect for Brutalism

Artisan printed in the UK

SHIPPING + RETURNS

Shipping

All Spaceplay prints are posted within 14 days.

All orders are sent using a tracked postal service, and you’ll receive tracking details once your model has been posted.

UK orders usually arrive within 3 working days after posting. International orders usually arrive within 8 working days after posting, although customs and local postal services can sometimes cause delays.

If you need your order for a specific date, please let me know after ordering and I’ll do my best to help.

UK customers can also select Express Shipping at checkout to have their print  posted within 7 days.

Returns

You can return unused and undamaged items within 30 days of delivery for a refund, excluding return postage costs.

If your model arrives damaged, faulty, or incorrect, please email me within 14 days of delivery with your order number and photos of the issue. I’ll arrange a free replacement to be made and posted to you.
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Building Information

Location: Birmingham, England
Architect: Paul Hamilton & John Bicknell
Completed: 1964
Status: Grade II Listed
Brief Overview:
New Street Signal Box has kept the regions network moving for decades- originally housing the Westpac Geographical Interlocking & Signalmens push button control panel (the largest relay interlocking in the world when installed) and also the Railway Telephone Exchange.  However all operations have been moved to a state of the art West Midlands Signalling Centre in Saltley, with the Signal Box set for a phased decommissioning.

My Risograph Prints

I often go hunting for Brutalist buildings and photograph them wherever I can get to them — car parks, bus stations, university towers, housing estates. Some of the ones in this collection have already been demolished.

 Photographing them is how I collect them; printing them is how I share them.

I think Risograph suits concrete. It's a stencil process: soy-based ink pushed through a drum one layer at a time, soaking into the paper rather than sitting on top of it in a glossy film. You get grain, texture and gorgeous matte blacks, and small variations from one print to the next that mean no two are quite identical. I think this makes it look and feel more like concrete.

Every print is produced with an independent artisan printer here in the UK, on 170gsm Munken Pure Rough Premium paper. The soy-based inks replace petroleum ones — lower in solvents, easier to recycle — and the press needs no heat to fuse them, so it draws a fraction of the power of a laser machine. This makes all of my prints affordable and eco-friendly.

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New Street Signal Box Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

Get up close to the New Street Signal Box and the ribs stop being a pattern and become a wall — deep vertical fins of precast concrete turning the corner without a single window to interrupt them. This risograph print looks up from the pavement at that corner, which is the angle that makes the building's strangeness obvious. Bicknell and Hamilton designed it to shield the signalling equipment, and accidentally gave Birmingham one of its best Brutalist buildings. Printed A3 in black and white on heavy textured paper, with riso grain doing the work in the shadow between each fin. Birmingham Brutalism, listed and still running the railway. A3 wall art for the city's defenders, and a conversation-starting gift for an architect or an engineer.