3D print the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
A free, printable model of the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum and its saddle-shaped roof, with the streets and low buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum is an indoor arena with 14,870 seats, at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona. Other names for it include the Madhouse Coliseum and the Phoenix Memorial Coliseum. From 1968 to 1992 the arena was the home of the Phoenix Suns, a National Basketball Association team. It also hosted indoor soccer, roller hockey, minor league ice hockey, and roller derby.
Planning for an "Arizona State Fairgrounds Exposition Center" had begun by February 1960. Leslie Mahoney of Lescher and Mahoney, a Phoenix architect, presented the final plans in 1964, and construction began that summer. Lew Place of Tucson also took part in the design, and T. Y. Lin International was the structural engineering firm. The coliseum opened on November 3, 1965; the first show was a production of Ice Follies. Its cost came to an estimated $7 million, and all of the funding was private.
The roof is saddle-shaped and held by tension cables, and it carries over 1,000 precast concrete panels; it was considered innovative architectural engineering. The name was changed in April 1965 to honor Arizona's war veterans. The design influenced later arenas, including the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta. Inside are murals by the Phoenix artist Paul Coze.
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 | 10 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 12 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 16 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Saddle roof and bracing ring
- The roof sweeps down in a saddle curve above a thin ring of diagonal bracing. Print friendly adapts the bracing to the print scale; Full detail keeps it at larger print sizes and a finer layer height.
- One piece with the ground
- The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum 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 Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum 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 Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum 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 Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum 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 Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum grows with the print: about 10 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.
