3D print the Ritz Tower
A free, printable model of the Ritz Tower, with its stepped setbacks and spired pyramid roof, and the dense Midtown towers around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Ritz Tower
465 Park Avenue, where Park Avenue meets East 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, is the address of the Ritz Tower, a luxury residential building. Journalist Arthur Brisbane developed it, and Emery Roth and Thomas Hastings designed it. It was built in 1925 and 1926, planned as an apartment hotel. The tower stands about 541 feet (165 m) high with 41 stories, New York City's tallest residential building at the time it was finished. Its first classification as an apartment hotel let it rise higher than was usually permitted.
The design is classically inspired. The stepped profile follows the 1916 Zoning Resolution, with setbacks at stories four, 19, 21, 25 and 33, and balustrades line them. Windows have pilasters and pediments, and the lower floors are richly ornamented with sculpted putti, urns and rusticated limestone blocks. A pyramidal roof topped by a tall obelisk crowns the building. Inside, parquet floors and wood-paneled walls reflect Brisbane's aim of making it the city's most desirable apartment hotel, and none of its 400 units had its own kitchen.
The tower opened on October 15, 1926, and Brisbane hired the Ritz-Carlton Company to run the building and its restaurants. He sold it to William Randolph Hearst in 1929. It turned into a housing cooperative in 1956, and its ground-floor retail space once held Le Pavillon, counted among America's earliest authentic French restaurants. The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission made it a New York City landmark in 2002.
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 | 46 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 57 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 73 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Thin spire on the roof
- A tall, narrow obelisk rises from the pyramidal roof. "Print friendly" adapts this slender tip to the print scale; printing the top layers slowly with good cooling helps it come out clean.
- Stepped setbacks and balustrades
- Each setback has small balustrade and window details. "Full detail" keeps them for a larger print, and a layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps the stepped silhouette sharp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Ritz 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 Ritz 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 Ritz 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 Ritz 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 Ritz Tower grows with the print: about 46 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.
