3D print the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
A free, printable model of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower with the tall buildings, streets and green park around it in Manhattan, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 210 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 57 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
210 m of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, 57 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.
- A slim tower with a pointed roof
The tower is tall and narrow and ends in a pointed pyramid roof with a small lantern. Printing slowly with good cooling helps tall thin parts, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the tip crisp.
- Clock faces and arches near the top
Round clock faces and rows of small arches sit high on the tower. Print friendly adapts these small details to the print scale, while Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 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 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 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 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, also called the Met Life Tower or the South Building, stands in Manhattan's Flatiron District, in New York City. The building has two sections: a 210 m (700 ft) tower, at Madison Avenue and 24th Street on the block's northwest corner, and a shorter east wing covering the rest of the block. With the North Building across 24th Street, it forms the Metropolitan Home Office Complex, originally the head office of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Napoleon LeBrun & Sons designed the tower, which went up between 1905 and 1909. St Mark's Campanile inspired the design, and the tower has a clock face on each of its four sides, along with four bells and lighted beacons at the top. Each clock face measures 8.1 m (26.5 ft) across. Until 1913, no building in the world was taller. Its exterior details were made oversized so the tower would seem smaller than it was, and a pyramidal roof 12 m (40 ft) tall tops it.
The tower is modeled on the St Mark's Campanile of Venice, Italy, and it is older than its model: the campanile collapsed in 1902 and its replacement came in 1912. The tower is over twice the size of the campanile. Its footprint measures 23 m by 26 m (75 ft by 85 ft). In 1978 the tower became a National Historic Landmark, and in 1989 New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission designated it a city landmark.
About this model
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower 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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