3D print Australia 108
A free, printable model of the very slender tower with its projecting band partway up, standing among the high-rise buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Australia 108
Australia 108 is a supertall residential tower in Melbourne's Southbank precinct, in Victoria, Australia. It was previously called 70 Southbank Boulevard. It rises 316.7 m (1,039 ft) and holds 1,105 apartments on 100 floors. Construction started in 2015 and finished in 2020; the main contractor was Brookfield Multiplex and the designer was Fender Katsalidis Architects. Its official topping out, in June 2020, made it Australia's tallest building measured to the roof, ahead of the Eureka Tower, and Melbourne's tallest.
Fender Katsalidis Architects bought the site, where City Road meets Southbank Boulevard, for A$14.2 million in April 2008. The first design, 70 Southbank Boulevard, was a 72-floor building 226 m (741 ft) high, echoing the nearby Eureka Tower. In November 2012, revised plans "super-sized" the tower to 388 m (1,273 ft) and 108 floors, with a six-star hotel and a star-shaped sky lobby. Feng shui shaped that design, with the number 8 in the name, height and top floor. It was approved in March 2013 but shelved in July 2013, after struggling to meet conditions set by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, VicRoads and others.
Singapore developer Aspial Corporation bought the project for approximately $30 million in late 2013. In 2014, plans were resubmitted for a 100-story apartment tower with 1,105 apartments, 500 more than the previous proposal. The hotel was removed, and the star-shaped sky lobby was kept, on levels 69 through 71. Planning Minister Matthew Guy granted approval on June 25, 2014, and the tower was launched to the public on February 14, 2015.
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 | 85 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 106 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 135 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Projecting band partway up
- A projecting band juts out from the shaft about two-thirds of the way up. Print friendly adapts these projecting details to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, and a larger print keeps their shape clearer.
- Very slim shaft
- The shaft is very slim for its height. Print slowly with good cooling, and use layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm to keep the vertical lines crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Australia 108 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. Australia 108 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
Australia 108 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 Australia 108 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. Australia 108 grows with the print: about 85 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.
