Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade

Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade

£15.00
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Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade
  • Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade
  • Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade
  • Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade
  • Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade
  • Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade
  • Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade
  • Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade
Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade

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A University icon, in black-and-white Risograph by Spaceplay

Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade

£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

An artistic portrayal of Manchester’s most playful Brutalist landmark. Affordable and sustainable wall art celebrating one of Manchester’s most distinctive and eccentric Brutalist structures.

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: Manchester, UK
Architect: Leonard Cecil Howitt
Completed: 1960
Status: Grade II listed (since 1998)
Brief Overview:
The Hollings Building—nicknamed the “Toast Rack” for its parabolic frame—was designed as a catering college. With its playful form and bold use of concrete, it remains one of Manchester’s most distinctive and eccentric Brutalist structures.

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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Hollings Building Risograph Print — Gable Facade

Everybody in Manchester calls it the Toast Rack, and once you've seen it you can't unsee it. This risograph print of the Hollings Building takes the gable end straight on, from across the street, so the whole improbable sweep of it fills the page. It's one of the friendliest things Brutalist architecture ever produced — all curve and rhythm where you'd expect weight — and black-and-white riso suits it, catching the grain of the concrete without flattening the shape. Printed A3 on heavy textured paper, it sits well in a hallway, a studio or above a desk. If you studied at Hollings, taught there, or just drove past it every day on the Wilmslow Road, this is Manchester Brutalism you can keep. A good gift for an architect, and a better one for a graduate who still misses the place.