3D print the Prudential Tower
A free, printable model of the Prudential Tower, a tall rectangular tower with a thin radio mast, with the dense city blocks around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Prudential Tower
The Prudential Tower, nicknamed the Pru and also called the Prudential Building, is a skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts, built in the international style. It forms part of the Prudential Center complex, and Charles Luckman and Associates designed it for Prudential Insurance. Construction began in 1960 and wrapped up in 1964. The roof is 749 feet (228 m) up, with 52 floors, and the pinnacle reaches 907 feet (276 m) once the radio mast is counted. Inside, 1.2 million sq ft hold offices and shops.
When it was finished, it ranked tenth among the world's tallest buildings, and outside New York City it was the tallest in North America, passing Cleveland's Terminal Tower in Ohio. It brought an end to the 59 years that the Custom House Tower had been Boston's tallest, and it passed Hartford's Travelers Tower to become the tallest in New England. John Hancock Financial's headquarters, built in 1947, looked small beside it, which spurred that rival insurer to put up the John Hancock Tower. Reviews of the architecture were mostly positive at the time.
In Back Bay, at 800 Boylston Street, the Prudential Center covers 23 acres, with a 620,000-square-foot shopping mall at its base. The land used to hold the Boston and Albany Railroad's switching yard. The tower's window lights have long carried messages: the tradition began in 1964 in support of a United Fund charity drive, and during baseball playoffs tenants have switched lights on and off to spell "GO SOX" for Red Sox fans.
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 | 75 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 94 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 120 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Thin radio mast and spikes
- A thin radio mast and smaller spikes rise from the flat crown. Print friendly adapts thin parts like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with good cooling and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Tall shaft with fine vertical lines
- The tower is a tall straight shaft with fine vertical lines on every face. A larger print keeps these lines easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- The Prudential 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 Prudential 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 this model
The Prudential Tower 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 Prudential Tower 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 Prudential Tower grows with the print: about 75 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.
