3D print the Queen Victoria Building
A free, printable model of the Queen Victoria Building and the city blocks, towers and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Queen Victoria Building
The Queen Victoria Building, often shortened to the QVB, is a heritage-listed building that stands at 429–481 George Street, in Sydney's central business district in New South Wales, Australia. George McRae designed it in the Romanesque Revival style, and it was constructed between 1893 and 1898. It is 190 m (620 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft) wide, and it occupies a whole city block between George, Market, York and Druitt streets. It was designed as a marketplace.
McRae came from Scotland and moved to Sydney in 1884. He produced four designs in different styles, and the council chose the Romanesque one, which shows the influence of the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. The dominant feature is the central dome, with an interior glass dome, a copper-sheathed exterior and a domed cupola on top. Smaller domes sit on the roof, including one on each upper corner. A cartwheel window depicts the City of Sydney's arms, and arched skylights run lengthways in both directions from the central dome.
In December 1893 Sir William Manning, the mayor, laid a five-metric-ton granite foundation stone, and Mayor Matthew Harris opened the building on July 21, 1898. Harris said it was intended as more than a municipal market. In 1897 the council chose to name the building after Queen Victoria, to mark her Diamond Jubilee, and it received the name Queen Victoria Building in 1987.
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 | 17 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 21 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 27 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A crowd of small domes
- A large central dome is joined by many small domes and cupolas along the roof and corners. Print friendly adapts the small ones to the print scale; Full detail keeps every dome, which suits a larger print.
- Arches and a ribbed roof
- Rows of arches line the walls and a ribbed barrel roof runs lengthways. A bigger print keeps more of the arcading, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the curves smooth.
- One piece with the ground
- The Queen Victoria Building 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 Queen Victoria Building 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 Queen Victoria Building 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 Queen Victoria Building 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 Queen Victoria Building grows with the print: about 17 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.
