3D print the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice
A free, printable model of the Ford Foundation's Center for Social Justice, a boxy cube with a ribbed roof and an open glass front, among taller Midtown buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 53 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 16 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
53 m of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, 16 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.
- Open glass grid front
The building is a cube with a glass-and-steel grid front. Print friendly adapts the thin grid lines to the print scale; Full detail keeps them for larger prints. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm helps.
- Ribbed roof
The top is a roof of many thin parallel ribs. A larger print size keeps them from merging, and slow printing helps the fine ribs.
- One piece with the ground
The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice 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 Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice 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 Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice
Kevin Roche and his partner John Dinkeloo, an engineer at Roche-Dinkeloo, created this East Midtown Manhattan office building in the late modernist style. It stands 12 stories high, was finished in 1967, and also goes by 320 East 43rd Street or 321 East 42nd Street, or simply the Ford Foundation Building. The foundation commissioned it as its headquarters; at the time of construction it was the biggest private foundation in the country. The commission followed Henry Heald's arrival as president, and the building rose where the old Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled stood.
In form it is a cube of glass and steel, carried by concrete piers faced with Dakota granite. Its top is 174 feet (53 m) up. Zoning would have let it climb 160 feet (49 m) ahead of a required setback, yet the Ford Foundation wanted a low height as "a public gesture". The main entrance is on 43rd Street, with a second entrance on 42nd Street. Inside, landscape architect Dan Kiley created a large public atrium of trees, shrubs, vines and other plants, the first such space in a Manhattan office building. Most offices lie north and west of it and can be seen from each other.
Plans were finalized and announced in September 1964, with the formal dedication on December 8, 1967. Cor-Ten steel appears on the facade too, weathered to a deep tan, and about 60,000 panes of glass. A major renovation and restoration ran from 2015 to 2018, and the building took the name Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. City landmark designation from the Landmarks Preservation Commission covers both the building and its atrium.
About this model
The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice 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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