3D print The Sofia
A free, printable model of The Sofia, a tall stepped tower among the high-rises of the Upper West Side, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 39 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
39 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Stepped setbacks near the top
The tower steps back into narrower tiers near the top. Print slowly so the upper tiers can cool between layers; Print friendly adapts the smallest parts.
- Tall and slim
The building is much taller than wide. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm and a bigger print size keep the rows of windows crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Sofia 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 Sofia 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 The Sofia
Once the Kent Automatic Garage and later the Sofia Brothers Warehouse, The Sofia is a condominium building in Manhattan's Upper West Side, at the corner where Columbus Avenue meets 61st Street. It was built from 1929 to 1930 for Kent Automatic Garages, in the Art Deco style, to a design by the firm Jardine, Hill & Murdock. The building is 27 stories tall: offices fill the nine stories above street level, and the top 17 stories hold condominiums.
The building began as a garage with room for 1,000 cars, and a gas station stood on the corner where Columbus Avenue meets 61st Street. Large vehicular elevators and electric trolleys on each floor moved cars automatically to parking spots. The upper facade is mostly orange brick with bands of black brick, with several setbacks and terracotta parapets; at ground level, several entrances are surrounded by multicolored terracotta. No other building in the Art Deco style is known to be by Jardine, Hill & Murdock.
On July 30, 1930, the garage opened, but foreclosure took the building from Kent within a year. The Central Savings Bank acquired it in 1936, and in 1944 the Sofia Brothers Warehousing Company bought it and turned it into a warehouse that also housed offices and studios. In August 1983 Aaron Green and Growth Realty Companies paid $9.3 million for it and, during the following year, converted it to a residential and commercial condominium. Since the 1980s it has held 94 apartments, from studios to three-bedroom units.
About this model
The Sofia is one of more than 4,300 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.
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