3D print the Grand Central Tower
A free, printable model of the Grand Central Tower, a plain rectangular tower with a pitched, multi-gabled roof, beside wide roads and parking structures, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Grand Central Tower
Originally the Guaranty Bank Building, the Grand Central Tower is a high-rise office building in Phoenix, Arizona, in the International Style. It was built from 1959 to 1960 for the developer David H. Murdock. On completion it became the tallest building in the city, ending the 31-year hold of the Westward Ho, which had opened in 1929. The 26-story Phoenix Corporate Center, finished in 1965, took the title a few years afterward.
Early plans described an 11-story office building. Murdock later chose to build higher, proposing an 18-story tower. Groundbreaking took place on February 13, 1959, and a cake weighing 3,000 pounds (1,400 kg), modeled on the design of the building, was presented at the ceremony. The tower was topped out in December 1959.
The building originally looked light blue from a distance; its curtain wall combined blue glass with precast concrete columns. In 1988 the exterior was remodeled: tan material replaced the light blue glass dividers, reddish-brown stone replaced the Mo-Sai on the east and west columns, and a big terracotta-colored pitched roof was put on top. Signs of 20 by 20 feet (6.1 by 6.1 m) face north and south.
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 | 21 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 26 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 33 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A multi-gabled pitched roof
- A cluster of small gables and pyramid-shaped roof forms tops the plain tower. Print friendly adapts the small roof details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Grand Central Tower 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 Grand Central Tower 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 Grand Central Tower 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 Grand Central Tower 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 Grand Central Tower grows with the print: about 21 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.
