3D print the Library of Parliament
A free, printable 3D model of the Library of Parliament and the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Library of Parliament in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- On a 160 mm print
- 16 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
16 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Slender Gothic details
Slender roof and wall details can be fragile on a small print, so Print friendly adapts them for a sturdy result. Use Full detail with a larger print size and a 0.12–0.16 mm layer height to keep them fine.
- One piece with the ground
The Library of Parliament 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 Library of Parliament 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 Library of Parliament
The Library of Parliament serves as the principal information store and research resource of the Parliament of Canada. Its main branch is on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, behind the Centre Block. Thomas Fuller and Chilion Jones designed it, and the British Museum Reading Room was its inspiration. The building takes the form of a chapter house, set apart from the Centre Block's main body by a corridor.
Its load-bearing walls are double-wythe masonry faced with rustic Nepean sandstone, with dressed stone trim and many carvings in the Victorian High Gothic style, and a ring of 16 flying buttresses supports them. The roof has three tiers and a cupola on top. A tornado stripped the slate shingles from the roof in 1888, and it has been clad in copper since. Inside, the main reading room has a vaulted ceiling, white pine paneling carved with flowers, masks and mythical creatures, and a statue of Queen Victoria in white marble in the middle.
Construction began in 1859 and was completed in 1876. The builders lacked the knowledge to build the domed roof, so a prefabricated dome was ordered from Thomas Fairbairn Engineering Co. of Manchester, and the library became the first building in North America with a wrought iron roof that was state of the art. In 1916 a fire destroyed most of the Centre Block, but the library came through: only a single corridor linked it to the main complex, and the clerk, Michael MacCormac, secured its iron doors in time. Its image is on the front of the Canadian ten-dollar bill.
About this model
The Library of Parliament is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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