3D print Random House Tower
A free, printable model of Random House Tower, a tall tower with stepped setbacks near its top, and the dense Midtown skyscrapers around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Random House Tower
Random House Tower, also called the Park Imperial Apartments, is a tall mixed-use building in Midtown Manhattan, in New York City. It has 52 stories and stands 208 meters (684 ft) tall. The complex fills a trapezoidal block that lies between 55th and 56th Streets, following the angle of Broadway, and its jagged setbacks improve views of Central Park.
The tower has two parts. Office floors take the 2nd through 26th stories, and residential floors run from the 27th to the 51st. Separate architects designed each part: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill did the offices, which have a steel frame, and Adam D. Tihany and Ismael Leyva Architects did the residences, which have a concrete frame. Because the two sections are not perfectly aligned, trusses on the 26th and 27th floors transfer the load. The residential part has 130 apartments.
Random House, a publishing company, has leased the office portion from the start, and in 2016 the building also became the global headquarters of its parent company, Penguin Random House, which inspired the building's name. Two fluid tuned mass dampers on the 50th floor are designed to damp sway. Critics have noted that the three main towers look like three books, though the architects called them "three sliding crystals".
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 | 56 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 70 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 90 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Stepped, jagged crown
- The top of the tower steps back in several slim volumes. Print friendly adapts the narrow steps to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on larger prints.
- Tall, narrow shaft
- The tower is tall for its footprint, and fine lines mark its facade. Print slowly with good cooling, and use a layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm to keep the vertical lines crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Random House 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. Random House 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
Random House 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 Random House 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. Random House Tower grows with the print: about 56 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.
