Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade

Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade

£15.00
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Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade
  • Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade
  • Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade
  • Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade
  • Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade
  • Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade
  • Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade
  • Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade
Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade

A Brutalist masterpiece, in black-and-white Risograph by Spaceplay

Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — 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

A black-and-white study of Leeds's great stacked lecture theatre block. Affordable, sustainable wall art for anyone who learned something inside those windowless drums.

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:  Leeds University, UK
Architect: Chamberlin Powell & Bon
Completed: 1970
Status:  grade II listed in 2010
Brief Overview:
The Roger Stevens Building in Leeds, a hallmark of architectural brilliance, was designed by Sir Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. Completed in 1970, this monumental structure exemplifies the principles of Brutalist architecture. Rising eight stories high, it showcases exposed concrete forms, geometric lines, and a distinctive honeycomb façade. The building serves as a multifunctional hub for academic and administrative activities within the University of Leeds. Its spacious interior houses lecture halls, offices, and communal areas, fostering a collaborative learning environment. The Roger Stevens Building stands as an enduring tribute to mid-20th century design, leaving an indelible mark on the Leeds cityscape.
 

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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Roger Stevens Building Risograph Print — Facade

Twenty-five lecture theatres stacked like drawers, each one a solid concrete box hanging off the frame — the Roger Stevens Building is the University of Leeds showing off, and it has every right to. This risograph print works the facade close in, letting the rhythm of those projecting theatres carry the whole image. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon designed it the way they designed the Barbican: nothing hidden, everything structural. Printed A3 in black and white on heavy textured paper, riso ink picking out the board-marked texture that a digital print would smooth away. Yorkshire Brutalism at full volume. A3 wall art for Leeds graduates, and a gift for an architect who'd rather look at a building that admits how it's built.