3D print 1271 Avenue of the Americas
A free, printable model of 1271 Avenue of the Americas and the tall buildings packed around it in New York, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About 1271 Avenue of the Americas
Once called the Time & Life Building, 1271 Avenue of the Americas is a 48-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It stands between 50th and 51st streets on the west side of Sixth Avenue. Wallace Harrison of Harrison & Abramovitz designed it, and from 1956 to 1960 it was developed as one piece of Rockefeller Center. Rockefeller Center's owners proposed it after the media firm Time Inc. said it intended to move from 1 Rockefeller Plaza. Construction began in May 1957, the tower topped out in November 1958, and occupants started moving in during late 1959.
A base of eight stories partly wraps around the 48-story main tower. The tower was planned to rise 179 m (587 ft) and measure around 94 by 32 m (310 by 104 ft). Its facade combines glass panels with limestone columns between them; the columns are spaced every 8.5 m (28 ft), and each stretch between them holds five vertical window bays. Glass allowed more flexibility on each story than a stone wall of equal size would have. Each upper floor covers 2,600 m² (28,000 sq ft), with offices arranged around the core.
Inside, the lobby has serpentine floors, walls of white marble and stainless steel, and ceilings of reddish-burgundy glass, along with works by Francis Brennan, Josef Albers and Fritz Glarner. The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission made the lobby a city landmark in 2002. The plaza has a serpentine paving pattern, similar to the sidewalks of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Time Inc. vacated the building in 2015, and a renovation followed between 2015 and 2019.
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 | 48 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 60 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 77 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Fine vertical facade lines
- The facade is covered in fine vertical lines, one set for each column and window bay. A larger print size and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them readable, and Print friendly adapts the thinnest lines to the print scale.
- A low box on the roof
- A low box sits on the roof. Print friendly adapts small roof details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- 1271 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. 1271 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
1271 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 1271 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. 1271 Avenue of the Americas grows with the print: about 48 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.
