3D print 252 East 57th Street
A free, printable model of 252 East 57th Street, a tall slim tower with a curved top edge and a gridded facade, and the buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About 252 East 57th Street
252 East 57th Street is a modernist residential skyscraper with mixed uses, standing in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Rose Associates, Inc. and the World Wide Group were the developers, and construction began in 2013. The tower is one piece of the luxury residential corridor along 57th Street known as Billionaires' Row. It rises 217 meters (712 ft), and its condominiums begin on the 36th floor.
Roger Duffy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the building, whose curved glass form takes its cue from the Aalto Vase, a Finnish design that Alvar Aalto created in 1936. Daniel Romauldez, an AD100 designer, did the interiors. The building was his first new development commission; before it he had designed private homes.
Beyond the tower, the complex also holds two new schools, 78,000 square feet of retail space and a Whole Foods Market. Amenities include automated parking, a swimming pool, a sauna, steam and ice rooms, and a private gated porte-cochère. Together these make it a mixed-use project, with homes, shops, a grocery store and schools on one site.
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 | 59 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 74 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 95 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Curved top edge
- The crown dips in a shallow curve instead of ending flat. Print slowly with good cooling, and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the curve crisp.
- Irregular window grid
- A patchwork of window and panel lines covers the faces. A larger print size keeps the pattern distinct, and Full detail suits it better than Print friendly.
- One piece with the ground
- 252 East 57th Street 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. 252 East 57th Street 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
252 East 57th Street 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 252 East 57th Street 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. 252 East 57th Street grows with the print: about 59 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.
