Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation

Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation

£15.00
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Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation
  • Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation
  • Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation
  • Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation
  • Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation
  • Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation
  • Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation
  • Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation
  • Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation
Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation

A Preston stalwart, in black-and-white Risograph by Spaceplay

Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation

£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 artist's view of the full length of those curving concrete balustrades. Affordable, sustainable wall art for anyone who thinks this is the finest building in Lancashire.

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: Preston, England
Architect: Keith Ingham, Charles Wilson of Building Design Partnership & E H Stazicker 
Completed: 1969
Status: Grade II Listed
Brief Overview: 
Described by the Twentieth Century Society as 'one of the most significant Brutalist buildings in the UK', Preston Bus Station opened in 1969 and at the time was one of the largest in Western Europe.  Above the Bus Station is 5 storeys of parking which feature the iconic sculptural curved forms.  These both protect passengers below when boarding a bus by providing shelter, and also protect cars from bumping into a vertical wall.  Since around 2000 Preston Bus Station has been threatened with demolition- with applications for Listed Status being opposed in both 2000 and 2010.  In 2012 Preston City Council announced it would be demolished, however Twentieth Century Society finally got a Listed Status application approved in 2013.  After significant refurbishment Preston Bus Station officially opened again in 2019, with the project receiving three regional RIBA awards.
 

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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Preston Bus Station Risograph Print — Old Elevation

Seen side-on, Preston Bus Station stops being a bus station and becomes a drawing — four decks of curved concrete balustrades running the whole length of the building, each one repeating the last. This risograph print takes the long elevation so you get the full rhythm of it, which is the thing photographs from the front never quite capture. Keith Ingham and BDP designed it in 1969 for a town that later tried to knock it down and then changed its mind. Printed A3 in black and white on heavy textured paper. Lancashire Brutalism, listed and loved. A3 wall art for anyone from Preston, anyone who campaigned, and a good gift for an architect who appreciates a building that got better the longer people looked at it.