3D print the Leadenhall Building
A free, printable model of the Leadenhall Building, a wedge-shaped tower with an open frame of diagonal braces on its sloping side, among dense towers, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Leadenhall Building
The Leadenhall Building, at 122 Leadenhall Street, is a 225 m skyscraper in central London with 48 floors. It is also called Leadenhall Tower and, informally, the Cheesegrater. It opened in July 2014. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners designed it, with Richard Rogers named as designer, and British Land and Oxford Properties developed it. The nickname refers to its wedge shape, which resembles the kitchen utensil, and it was first used by Peter Rees, the chief planning officer of the City of London Corporation, on seeing a model of the concept.
On one side the tower has a tapered glass facade that reveals steel bracing, plus a ladder frame that stresses its vertical look. A steel "Megaframe", engineered by Arup, gives stability to the entire structure, and it is the tallest in the world of its kind. The flat side is encased in glass and holds the mechanical services, especially the elevator shafts, which are shown off as a feature, with bright orange counterweights and motors on display, as at the neighboring Lloyd's Building. The base has a 30 m high atrium, open to the public, that extends the adjacent plaza.
The Lloyd's Building, also by Richard Rogers, adjoins the tower. A 1960s building by Gollins Melvin Ward, owned by British Land, had stood on the site. The City of London Corporation received the planning application in February 2004 and approved it in May 2005. The site was cleared by December 2009, but the 2008 financial crisis stalled construction, and Oxford Properties revived the project in 2010 in partnership with British Land. Construction began in 2011 with the basement floors, and the steelwork was topped out by June 2013.
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 | 61 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 76 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 97 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Diagonal braces on the sloping side
- The sloping face is an open frame of diagonal braces. Print friendly adapts thin braces like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with good cooling and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Narrow wedge between neighbors
- The tower is a narrow wedge close to taller neighbors on both sides. A larger print keeps the thin gaps between them clear.
- One piece with the ground
- The Leadenhall 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 Leadenhall 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 this model
The Leadenhall Building 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 Leadenhall Building 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 Leadenhall Building grows with the print: about 61 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.
