3D print the Delacorte Theater
A free, printable model of the Delacorte Theater, with its curved seating and lighting towers, and the park paths and water around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 5 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
5 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Tall lighting towers
Thin lattice towers rise behind the seating. They are the most delicate parts of this model, so print slowly with good cooling, and use a larger print or Full detail to keep them.
- Many thin seating rows
The curved seating is built from many narrow tiers. A layer height of 0.12-0.16 mm keeps the steps crisp, while Print friendly merges the finest rows at small sizes.
- One piece with the ground
The Delacorte Theater 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 Delacorte Theater 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 the Delacorte Theater
The Delacorte Theater is an amphitheater in Central Park, in Manhattan, with no roof and 1,800 seats. Free Shakespeare in the Park productions by the Public Theater are staged here. It opened in 1962, and its first production was The Merchant of Venice in June of that year, with James Earl Jones and George C. Scott in the leading roles.
Joseph Papp ran a Shakespeare festival beginning in 1954, using temporary stages around the boroughs, including in Central Park. In 1958 he began seeking funds for a permanent outdoor amphitheater, with help from Helen Hayes. Parks Commissioner Robert Moses opposed the idea, but Newbold Morris, who replaced him in 1960, was far more positive. Approval came for $250,000 from the Board of Estimate, and Park Department architects designed the original theater.
The money ran out before the theater was finished, so Morris turned to his friend George T. Delacorte Jr., who headed Dell Publishing. A Shakespeare fan, Delacorte agreed to pay the remaining $150,000, and the theater was named for him and his wife Valerie. It stands where an old Croton Aqueduct reservoir once was, and first had 2,300 seats. From 1976 to 1991 it also hosted Festival Latino, with Spanish-language shows each August.
About this model
The Delacorte Theater 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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