3D print 1221 Avenue of the Americas
A free, printable model of 1221 Avenue of the Americas, a plain tall tower with fine vertical lines, surrounded by other tall buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About 1221 Avenue of the Americas
1221 Avenue of the Americas is a skyscraper in the international style in New York City. Its address is 1221 Sixth Avenue, also called the Avenue of the Americas, and it stands in Midtown Manhattan. It has 51 floors and a seven-story base, with a simple cuboid shape. The facade carries no decoration: red granite piers alternate with stripes of glass, a pattern that underlines the tower's verticality. The building sits 35 m (115 feet) back from Sixth Avenue, and it once went by the name McGraw-Hill Building as well.
The tower is one of the "XYZ Buildings", which belong to the later expansion of Rockefeller Center in the 1960s and 1970s. Wallace Harrison, the Rockefeller family's architect at Harrison & Abramovitz, first drew up plans for them in 1963. The letters correspond to height, and 1221 Avenue of the Americas is the "Y" building: the second tower completed, in 1973, and second in height at 205 m (674 ft) with 51 stories. McGraw Hill Financial used it as its headquarters from 1972 to 2015, and in 2009 it received a LEED green-building certification.
A sunken courtyard formerly held Sun Triangle, an abstract steel sculpture by Athelstan Spilhaus that stood 15 m (49 feet) tall, positioned so that the Sun lines up with its sides on the solstices and equinoxes. The lobby combines red marble and dark red terrazzo with aphorisms from Plato and from John F. Kennedy. In the film The Devil Wears Prada (2006), the building's exterior and lobby stood in for Elias-Clarke's headquarters.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 55 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 69 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 88 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Fine vertical stripes
- The walls are covered in thin vertical lines. A larger print size and a layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the stripes crisp, while Print friendly softens the very finest ones.
- A tall, plain slab
- The tower is a tall flat-topped block packed in among other tall buildings. Printing slowly keeps its long straight walls clean, and Full detail suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- 1221 Avenue of the Americas is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. 1221 Avenue of the Americas takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
1221 Avenue of the Americas is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a 1221 Avenue of the Americas STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. 1221 Avenue of the Americas grows with the print: about 55 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
