3D print the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building
A free, printable model of this tall Brutalist state office tower in Harlem and the low blocks and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building
This nineteen-story high-rise office building is at 163 West 125th Street, where it meets Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. It was first named the Harlem State Office Building. The name honors Powell, the first African-American elected from New York to Congress. It overtook the nearby Hotel Theresa as the tallest building in Harlem.
Governor Nelson Rockefeller proposed the building in 1966 as the first step in a plan to make Harlem a "truly viable community". In 1967, ground was broken as a Corn Exchange Bank building came down. Work halted in 1969 after demonstrators objected to the racial makeup of the workforce and to the facility's intended purpose, and it resumed by mid-1970 once the dispute was settled. It was finished in 1973 and renamed in 1983, after Powell, who had died in 1972.
The African-American architecture firm Ifill Johnson Hanchard designed it in the Brutalist style, shaped like an African mask. Over the years, critics have called it a "killer building" of 1960s urban renewal that "disfigured" the neighborhood, and an example of mediocre government architecture, while others have embraced it as a focus for community efforts in future development battles.
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 | 24 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 30 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 38 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Flared supports at the base
- The tower stands on thick, flared supports at its corners. Print friendly keeps them solid, and a larger print size keeps their outline clearer.
- Vertical ribs and stepped crown
- Fine vertical ribs run up the sides and the roofline steps in. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps these lines crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building 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. The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building 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
The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building 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 an Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building 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. The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building grows with the print: about 24 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.
