3D print 140 Broadway
A free, printable model of 140 Broadway, a tall, plain-sided tower with a flat top, and the dense Financial District buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About 140 Broadway
140 Broadway has also been called the Marine Midland Building and the HSBC Bank Building. It is an office tower of 51 stories in the International Style, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. Its plot lies along Broadway's east side, from Cedar Street to Liberty Street. Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed it, giving it a facade that is mostly smooth and black, on a trapezoid-shaped plot. Its height is roughly 210 meters (688 ft), and it is known for a distinctive sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, Cube, placed at the entrance.
Developer Erwin S. Wolfson bought the site in stages between 1952 and 1961. First plans described a 36-story monolith, but after Wolfson died the architects reworked them into a 51-story tower that fills two-fifths of the block and follows the 1961 Zoning Resolution. The tower went up from late 1964 to 1967, and was named at first for its main tenant, Marine Midland Corporation, which later became part of HSBC. Silverstein Properties bought it in 1998 and carried out a major renovation.
Harry Helmsley took over the project after Wolfson's death and wanted to stress the building's vertical axis, so Roger N. Radford, the design team's leader, chose to highlight the window-washing tracks that run vertically on the black-aluminum facade. Dark glass panels and slightly textured aluminum window trim make up the rest of the smooth surface. In 2013 the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission made it a New York City landmark.
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 | 56 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 70 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 90 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Plain tower, fine details
- The tower is a simple tall box with a flat top. Its detail is in the vertical lines of the facade, so a layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps them crisp.
- Tall block among neighbors
- The tower is surrounded by other tall buildings, so a larger print size helps it stand out. Print slowly with good cooling so the flat top stays clean.
- One piece with the ground
- 140 Broadway 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. 140 Broadway 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
140 Broadway 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 140 Broadway 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. 140 Broadway grows with the print: about 56 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.
