Forton Services Risograph Print — Tower Corner

Forton Services Risograph Print — Tower Corner

£15.00
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Forton Services Risograph Print — Tower Corner

A space-age classic, in black-and-white Risograph by Spaceplay

Forton Services Risograph Print — Tower Corner

£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 Pennine Tower's cantilevered deck from directly below. Affordable, sustainable wall art for anyone who wishes you could still go up there.

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: Lancaster, England
Architect: T.P. Bennett & Son
Completed: 1965
Status: Grade II Listed
Brief Overview: Forton Services opened in 1965 with its Pennine Tower- the large hexagonal tower similar to an Air Traffic Control Centre- which is 74ft across at the top.  Originally the Tower housed an upmarket restaurant and sun deck, but was closed to the public in 1989 due to fire regulations.  The Tower was Listed in 2012, and is a prominent and much love local landmark.

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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Forton Services Risograph Print — Tower Corner

Stand underneath the Pennine Tower and it stops being a service station and starts being a spacecraft. This risograph print goes in tight on the corner, looking up at the cantilevered deck where the restaurant used to be, so the whole frame is that strange hexagonal overhang against the sky. Closed to the public for fifty years and still the most optimistic building on any British motorway. Printed A3 in black and white on heavy textured paper, with riso ink doing what it does best on a hard-edged concrete form — deep shadow, visible grain, no gloss. Lancashire Brutalism at its most hopeful. A3 wall art for anyone who stops at Forton on purpose, and a gift for the person in your life who photographs car parks.