3D print Park Avenue Plaza
A free, printable 3D model of Park Avenue Plaza and the crowded tower blocks around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Park Avenue Plaza
At 55 East 52nd Street, in Midtown Manhattan, stands Park Avenue Plaza, a 44-story office building 575 feet (175 m) tall. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) designed it for the developer Fisher Brothers, and it was finished in 1981. The name is misleading: the tower is not on Park Avenue and has no plaza. It sits mid-block, entered from 52nd Street and 53rd Street, and on its east side it meets the building of the Racquet and Tennis Club, which fronts Park Avenue.
The massing has 15 sides, with broad diagonal faces to the northeast and southeast and a deep notch on the east side. The facade is covered in reflective blue-green glass panels. The bottom ten stories contain a lobby, an atrium and mechanical equipment, so every office floor has windows facing Park Avenue. Each office floor offers roughly 2,600 m2 (28,000 square feet) of rentable space. Reviews of the design were mixed when the building was completed.
In the 1970s Fisher Brothers acquired the site, offering a ground-level atrium in return for extra space. Construction started in March 1979, once talks ended with the Racquet and Tennis Club, whose threat to put a hotel on top of its own building had been part of the negotiations. Before completion, 90% of the building's space was already leased.
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 | 47 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 59 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 76 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Faceted, notched crown
- The 15-sided plan gives the tower angled faces and a notch near the top. Print friendly keeps the facets sturdy; Full detail keeps the small rooftop units, which suits a larger print.
- Fine vertical ribs
- Narrow vertical ribs run the full height. A layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keeps them crisp, and printing slowly helps the tall shape.
- One piece with the ground
- Park Avenue Plaza 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. Park Avenue Plaza 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
Park Avenue Plaza 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 Park Avenue Plaza 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. Park Avenue Plaza grows with the print: about 47 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.
