3D print Lever House
A free, printable model of Lever House, a slim slab tower above a low base, among the taller towers of Midtown Manhattan, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Lever House
Lever House is a 94 m (307 ft) office building at 390 Park Avenue, on the west side of the avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets. It went up from 1950 to 1952 to designs in the International Style by Gordon Bunshaft, together with Natalie de Blois, both of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Lever Brothers, a soap company and a Unilever subsidiary, first used it as its headquarters. In New York City, only the United Nations Secretariat Building had a glass curtain wall on a high-rise before it.
Its ground level is mostly an open plaza of terrazzo in light and dark shades, with a planted garden and pool at the center. Stainless-steel-clad columns carry the second story, so the floors above seem to float. The third through twenty-first stories form a slab over the northern quarter of the lot. It is only 16 m (53 ft) wide along Park Avenue, which puts every office within 7.6 m (25 ft) of a window. The slab shape also met the city's 1916 Zoning Resolution without setbacks.
Its construction transformed Midtown's Park Avenue from a street of masonry apartment buildings into one of office buildings in the International style, and several other structures around the world copied its design. It nearly came down in the 1980s, after Fisher Brothers proposed a tower of 40 stories for the site. Instead, in 1982, the city narrowly approved it as a landmark, and a year later it went onto the National Register of Historic Places.
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 | 26 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 32 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 41 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slim glass slab
- The tower is a thin slab with a tight grid of window bands. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the lines crisp, and a larger print size keeps the bands from merging.
- Slender columns below
- Thin columns hold the raised base. Print friendly thickens thin parts at small sizes; Full detail keeps them as modeled on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- Lever House 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. Lever House 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
Lever House 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 Lever House 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. Lever House grows with the print: about 26 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.
