3D print the Centre Pompidou
A free, printable model of the Centre Pompidou, its open plaza and the dense blocks of buildings around it in Paris, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou, known in English as the Pompidou Centre and nicknamed Beaubourg, is a complex of buildings in Paris, France, standing in Beaubourg in the city's 4th arrondissement. Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Su Rogers worked as a team, with Gianfranco Franchini, to give it a high-tech design. It is named for Georges Pompidou, who served as French president between 1969 and 1974 and commissioned the building. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing officially opened it on January 31, 1977.
A jury made up of Philip Johnson, Jean Prouvé and Oscar Niemeyer picked the Rogers and Piano design from 681 competition entries, and it was the first time France let international architects compete. The two emerging architects, both in their thirties, created the first major building turned inside out, with its structure, mechanical systems and circulation shown on the exterior. Initially the functional elements were color-coded: green pipes for plumbing, blue ducts for climate control, yellow casing for electrical wires, and red for circulation and safety devices.
Three institutions share the complex: a vast public library, the Bibliothèque publique d'information; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the biggest museum of modern art in Europe; and IRCAM, a center for music and acoustic research. In front of the museum lies an open plaza, the Place Georges Pompidou. Close by, on Place Stravinsky, the Stravinsky Fountain has 16 whimsical moving sculptures that spray water, created by Niki de Saint-Phalle and Jean Tinguely.
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 | 12 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 15 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 20 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A cage of braces and tubes
- The outside is wrapped in a grid of thin braces, columns and pipes. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps every one, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- A zigzag tube on the west side
- A long slender tube runs diagonally up the west front. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm and a slower print speed help it stay 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 Centre Pompidou 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 Centre Pompidou 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 Centre Pompidou 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 Centre Pompidou grows with the print: about 12 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.
