3D print 500 Fifth Avenue
A free, printable model of the stepped tower, with the taller and shorter buildings and the streets of Midtown around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 212 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 57 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
212 m of 500 Fifth Avenue, 57 mm on your shelf
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.
- Stepped setbacks up the tower
The tower narrows in steps as it rises. Print friendly adapts the thinnest ledges to the print scale, while Full detail keeps every setback on larger prints or with a fine nozzle.
- Tall, slim and gridded
A tall narrow tower prints best slowly, with good cooling. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the rows of windows crisp, and a larger print size keeps more of the facade detail.
- One piece with the ground
500 Fifth Avenue 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. 500 Fifth Avenue 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 500 Fifth Avenue
500 Fifth Avenue is an office building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, occupying the northwest corner where Fifth Avenue crosses 42nd Street. It is 697 feet (212 m) tall. The Art Deco design is by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, and the building was constructed from 1929 to 1931 for the businessman Walter J. Salmon Sr. To the south, across 42nd Street, are the New York Public Library's Main Branch and Bryant Park.
Bronze, limestone and terracotta clad the base, and brick takes over above the fourth floor, with terracotta panels with chevrons as almost the only ornament up there. The 1916 Zoning Resolution limited building shape, so the tower has setbacks and its lower floors are larger than its upper ones. On the Fifth Avenue side they step back at stories 18, 22 and 25, while those facing 42nd Street fall at stories 23, 28 and 34. More than 3.3 million bricks went into the building.
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon also designed the Empire State Building, which went up at the same time, nine blocks to the south. 500 Fifth Avenue resembles it in design but never gained the same prominence, because it has an asymmetrical massing, no spire and smaller proportions. The building opened in March 1931. In 2010 New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission designated it an official city landmark.
About this model
500 Fifth Avenue is one of more than 4,300 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.
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