3D print the IAC Building
A free, printable model of the IAC Building, with its twisting sail-like facets, and the Chelsea blocks and street beside it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 44 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 14 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
44 m of the IAC Building, 14 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.
- Twisting curved facets
The curved, faceted walls are smooth and overlapping, with thin edges where the sections meet. A layer height of 0.12-0.16 mm keeps the curves clean, and Print friendly adapts the thinnest seams at small sizes.
- One piece with the ground
The IAC Building 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 IAC Building 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 IAC Building
Chelsea, in Manhattan, is home to the IAC Building at 555 West 18th Street, where the northeast corner meets Eleventh Avenue; it serves as headquarters for the media company IAC. Frank Gehry designed it, and it was finished in 2007. It was his first full building in New York City, and its lobby held what was then the largest high-definition screen in the world.
It reads as two big levels. A wide base made of twisting tower sections, grouped tightly like cells in a hive, supports a second, narrower cluster. Each cell looks like a sail stretched over the building's frame, and the windows, running floor to ceiling, shade from clear to white at the upper and lower edges of every story. The effect is of two very tall stories, even though the structure has 10.
IAC's head, Barry Diller, who was closely involved in the project, required a facade of smooth glass rather than the wrinkling titanium Gehry first planned. He picked Gehry because he wanted workers to be able to collaborate in an open atmosphere, which he felt a typical boxy building could not offer as easily. Vanity Fair wrote that it might be among the most attractive office buildings in the world.
About this model
The IAC Building 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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