3D print Tate Modern
A free, printable model of Tate Modern and the riverside buildings, streets and green squares around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Tate Modern
Tate Modern, in London, is an art gallery that keeps the UK's national collection of modern and contemporary art from around the world, created from or after 1900. It belongs to the Tate group alongside Tate Britain, Tate St Ives and Tate Liverpool, and it ranks among the world's largest museums for modern and contemporary art. The gallery is housed in what used to be Bankside Power Station, in the London Borough of Southwark. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of Battersea Power Station, designed that building, which was built in two phases from 1947 to 1963 and closed in 1981.
Before redevelopment the power station was a steel-framed, brick-clad building 200 m (660 ft) long, with a substantial central chimney 99 m (325 ft) high. An international competition was held, and Herzog & de Meuron won it, with the result announced in January 1995. Conversion work, costing £134 million, ran from June 1995 to January 2000, adding a two-story glass addition covering half of the roof. The Queen opened Tate Modern on May 11, 2000.
A ten-story tower reaching 65 m (213 ft) above ground level was later built over the power station's old oil tanks, and it opened to the public on June 17, 2016. Herzog & de Meuron designed it as well, with a sloping brick latticework facade that echoes the original building. In May 2017 the tower, known as the Switch House, was renamed the Blavatnik Building.
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 | 28 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 35 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 45 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Tall, slim chimney
- The square chimney rises as a narrow shaft above the roofline. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm and slower printing help keep its top clean.
- Sloping tower and brick detail
- The tapered tower and the long walls carry fine horizontal lines. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- 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. Tate Modern 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
Tate Modern 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 Tate Modern 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. Tate Modern grows with the print: about 28 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.
