3D print the Hearst Tower
A free, printable model of the skyscraper and the dense blocks of towers around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Hearst Tower
Hearst Communications has its world headquarters in the Hearst Tower, a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on the southwest corner of Eighth Avenue and 57th Street, close to Columbus Circle. The building has two sections and 46 stories, with a total height of 182 m (597 ft). The base, the six lowest stories, is the Hearst Magazine Building. George B. Post & Sons and Joseph Urban designed it, and it was completed in 1928. Norman Foster designed the tower above, which was finished in 2006.
William Randolph Hearst acquired the site in the mid-1920s for a theater. He expected the neighborhood to turn into the city's next big entertainment district, but he changed course and built a magazine headquarters. Planned as the base of a larger tower, the original building saw that tower put off because of the Great Depression. In 1988 New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission made the original building's facade a city landmark. The need to retain those protected lowest stories shaped the design of the tower section.
The original base is clad in cast limestone and has six pylons with sculptural groups, and Henry Kreis designed six sculpture groups for the third story. The pylons hint that a theater was the first plan for the building. Above it, the glass-and-metal facade forms a diagrid, a diagonal grid, that also serves as the structure. An atrium replaced the base's original office space. The tower holds a green-building certification under LEED, short for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
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 | 49 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 61 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 78 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A diagonal lattice
- The tower is wrapped in a diagonal grid of thin members. Print friendly adapts the grid to the print scale; Full detail keeps it on a larger print or with a fine nozzle.
- A tall, narrow tower
- The tower is tall for its width, so print slowly with good cooling. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the grid lines crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Hearst 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 Hearst 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 Hearst 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 Hearst 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 Hearst Tower grows with the print: about 49 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.
