Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore

Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore

£15.00
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Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore
  • Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore
  • Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore
  • Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore
  • Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore
  • Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore
  • Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore
  • Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore
  • Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore
Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore

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A London landmark, in black-and-white Risograph by Spaceplay

Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore

£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 Trellick's detached service tower, seen from the ground up. Affordable, sustainable wall art for anyone who looks for that silhouette from the Westway.

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: London, England
Architect: Erno Goldfinger
Completed: 1972
Status: Grade II Listed
Brief Overview: Trellick Tower is a Grade II Listed building located in Northwest London by architect Erno Goldfinger.  It was the last major project Goldfinger would work on, and was based on his previous, smaller project- Balfron Tower, also in London.  It was designed to replace outdated social housing.  Initially the 31 storey Tower, with 217 flats in total, had issues with crime- such as vandalism, drug abuse and prostitution.  In the 1980's a residents association was established, and security measures like a concierge put in place.  This reduced crime significantly and by the 1990's although still primarily social housing- it had become a desirable place to live.  Trellick Tower has become iconic, and has featured in many adverts, films, shows and songs including the BBC's London 2012 Olympics coverage.  It is also thought to have inspired J.G. Ballards 1975 novel 'High Rise', and is said to be the location where Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett first conceived the idea for Gorillaz.

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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Trellick Tower Risograph Print — Staircore

Trellick Tower is recognisable from half of west London, and it's the service shaft that does it — a separate tower of lifts and boiler rooms, linked back to the flats by bridges every three floors. This risograph print looks straight up it from the lower ground, so the slots and shadows stack away into the sky. Goldfinger put the machinery outside on purpose, and it gave London its most photographed silhouette. Printed A3 in black and white on heavy textured paper, riso ink deep in the recesses and the paper showing through on the lit faces. London Brutalism at its most famous. A3 wall art for anyone who lives in the shadow of it or detours past it on the Grand Union, and a gift for an architect who knows the bridges are the point.