3D print the Barbican Centre
A free, printable model of the Barbican Centre and the tower blocks, water and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre is an arts and performance venue within the Barbican Estate, in the City of London, England. It stages classical and contemporary music concerts, theater, film screenings and art exhibitions. Inside are a conservatory and three restaurants. Two orchestras, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, are based in the Barbican Hall. The theater was built for the Royal Shakespeare Company, as its London home.
It was built as a gift from the City of London to the nation, costing £161 million, and Queen Elizabeth II officially opened it on March 3, 1982. The City of London Corporation owns, funds and manages it. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon designed it in the Brutalist style, with a complex multi-level layout and numerous entrances, and the same practice was responsible for the Barbican Estate around it. The concrete design has been controversial from the start and splits opinion.
The housing of the estate was finished some years before the complex opened, in an area that suffered heavy bomb damage in World War II. The lake and its neighboring terrace form the main focal point outside, and the fly tower of the theater was wrapped in glass to become a high-level conservatory. In September 2001 it was announced as a Grade II listed building, recognized for its scale, cohesion and ambition.
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 | 8 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 13 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Stepped blocks and terraces
- Many small stepped blocks and terraces break up the roofline. Print friendly adapts small details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them all, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Curved glazed walls
- Thin frames run across the curved glazed walls. A bigger print keeps more of them, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep fine vertical lines crisp.
- 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 Barbican Centre 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 Barbican Centre 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 Barbican Centre 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 Barbican Centre grows with the print: about 8 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.
