3D print 555 California Street
A free, printable model of 555 California Street, a slender tower among the buildings and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About 555 California Street
555 California Street, in San Francisco, California, is a skyscraper of 52 stories and 237 m (779 ft); it was previously called the Bank of America Center. Finished in 1969, it was unmatched in height west of the Mississippi River up to the point when the Transamerica Pyramid was finished in 1972. Bank of America had its world headquarters there until its 1998 merger with NationsBank. The tower is colloquially known as "Triple Five" or "Triple Nickel", and it was intended to show the bank's wealth, power and importance.
Two firms, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons, did the design work, with Pietro Belluschi as a consulting architect. H. J. Brunnier Associates, a San Francisco firm, handled the structural engineering. Thousands of bay windows cover the tower. They were meant to improve rental value and to symbolize bay windows typical of residential property in San Francisco. The irregular notches at the upper end of the tower were designed to bring to mind the Sierra Nevada.
A broad plaza on the north side is named in honor of A.P. Giannini, who founded Bank of America. In it stands a 200-ton sculpture of black Swedish granite, "Transcendence" by Masayuki Nagare, which is nicknamed the "Banker's Heart". Polished or rough carnelian granite covers nearly the whole block. The Carnelian Room, a restaurant, was on the 52nd floor and closed at midnight on New Year's Eve 2009. The Transamerica Pyramid reaches higher because of its spire, though the higher habitable space belongs to 555 California.
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 | 65 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 81 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 104 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Narrow ribs along the shaft
- Rows of thin vertical ribs run up the tower. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print or with a fine nozzle.
- A tall tower with a notched crown
- The top steps in with irregular cutouts. Print slowly with good cooling, and use 0.12–0.16 mm layers to keep the crown crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- 555 California 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. 555 California 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
555 California 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 555 California 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. 555 California Street grows with the print: about 65 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.
