3D print CitySpire
A free, printable model of CitySpire, a tapering tower with stepped setbacks and a domed top, and the dense Midtown towers around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 248 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 67 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
248 m of CitySpire, 67 mm on your shelf
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.
- Ribbed dome crown
The tower ends in a ribbed dome. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the curve smooth, and Print friendly adapts the fine ribs to the print scale.
- Narrow stepped shaft
The shaft is narrow and steps in at the setbacks, with other skyscrapers close on every side. Print slowly with good cooling to keep the stepped outline crisp.
- One piece with the ground
CitySpire 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. CitySpire 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 CitySpire
At 150 West 56th Street in Midtown Manhattan stands CitySpire, also called CitySpire Center, a skyscraper that mixes uses. Murphy/Jahn Architects designed it, and Ian Bruce Eichner developed it beside the theater called New York City Center. The tower is 248 m (814 ft) tall with 75 stories above ground. When it was completed, only Chicago's Sears Tower was a taller concrete tower in the United States.
The tower has an octagonal plan, with a wing on each of the east and west sides, and a copper-faced dome inspired by that of City Center. Its facade is stone with glass windows, and it steps inward at the 46th floor and again at the 62nd. Most of the building measures 24 m (80 feet) across or less, and that narrowness lets the upper stories sway at times in heavy storms. The lowest 22 floors are commercial, and above them are luxury apartments that grow larger on higher floors. The dome has eight steel ribs and louvers; wind whistled through them until alternating panels were removed in 1992.
Eichner proposed CitySpire in 1984. He obtained the unused air rights over City Center and improved the theater, with the aim of almost doubling the tower's area. Construction began in 1985, and by June 1987 the tower had been topped out. A passageway, part of 6½ Avenue, links the entrances on 56th and 55th Streets.
About this model
CitySpire is one of more than 4,300 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.
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