3D print 22 Bishopsgate
A free, printable model of 22 Bishopsgate, a slender tower with a stepped, slanted top, among the neighboring skyscrapers, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About 22 Bishopsgate
22 Bishopsgate is a commercial skyscraper, finished in 2020, on Bishopsgate in the City of London's financial district. It rises 278 m (912 ft) over 62 stories. It took the place of an earlier scheme, The Pinnacle, a 288 m (945 ft) tower whose construction began in 2008 and was halted in 2012 after the Great Recession, leaving just the concrete core of its first seven floors built. A later redesign cut construction costs, and the building took its postal address as its name.
Kohn Pedersen Fox were the architects of The Pinnacle, first called the Bishopsgate Tower, for which planning permission was sought in June 2005 and granted in April 2006. Its height was first proposed at 307 m (1,007 ft) and cut to 288 m (945 ft) after the Civil Aviation Authority raised concerns. The twisting roof and curling façade patterns drew on armadillos, mushrooms and seashells, which earned it the nickname The Helter Skelter. In 2015 a group of investors headed by Axa Real Estate acquired the site, and a redesign with a simpler exterior followed.
The foundations set a record: by March 2009 builders had put in the UK's longest piles, reaching 65.5 m (215 ft) below ground level. The earlier record holder, Moor House, had foundations 57 m (190 ft) deep. Later, a redesign cutting the height to 255 m because of crane concerns near London City Airport's flight paths was approved, then withdrawn once the 278 m design received approval.
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 | 75 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 93 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 120 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Stepped, slanted crown
- The tower narrows in steps and ends in a slanted top. Printing slowly with good cooling helps the upper stories hold their shape.
- Fine facade lines
- The facade carries fine vertical lines. Print friendly adapts this detail to your print scale; Full detail keeps it, best on a larger print with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- One piece with the ground
- 22 Bishopsgate 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. 22 Bishopsgate 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
22 Bishopsgate 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 22 Bishopsgate 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. 22 Bishopsgate grows with the print: about 75 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.
