Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View

Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View

£15.00
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Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View
  • Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View
  • Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View
  • Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View
  • Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View
  • Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View
  • Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View
  • Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View
  • Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View
Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View

A Marylebone legend, in black-and-white Risograph by Spaceplay

Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View

£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 the whole diamond frontage, taken before demolition. Affordable, sustainable wall art for anyone who misses the strangest facade in Marylebone.

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: Michael Blampied & Partners
Completed: 1970
Status: Demolished 2019
Brief Overview: Welbeck Street Car Park was built to serve the nearby department store Debenhams.  It opened to much acclaim from the architectural press- with its iconic tessellated concrete diamond facades.   With Central London becoming less car orientated it was rendered obsolete, and the site was sold in 2016 with permission given for demolition in 2017.  Campaigns to save it were led by preservation body Twentieth Century Society, but ultimately Historic England denied it Listed status and demolition began in 2019.  

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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Welbeck Street Car Park Risograph Print — Street View

For nearly fifty years there was a car park in Marylebone with a facade made of concrete diamonds, and then there wasn't. This risograph print shows the full street elevation as it stood, the whole grid of folded panels running the length of the building, photographed before the demolition crews arrived in 2019. Michael Blampied designed it in 1970 and gave a utilitarian building more character than most of the offices around it. Printed A3 in black and white on heavy textured paper, riso ink finding every angle in that facade. London Brutalism, lost. A3 wall art for anyone who remembers it, and a quietly meaningful gift for an architect or campaigner who knows exactly how close it came to being listed.