3D print The Spiral
A free, printable model of The Spiral, a tall tower with stepped terraces climbing its facade, among neighboring skyscrapers, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About The Spiral
The Spiral, also called 66 Hudson Boulevard, is a skyscraper with 66 floors in Manhattan's Hudson Yards. It rises 314 m (1,031 ft), and its listed size is 265,000 m² (2.85 million sq ft). It stands on 34th Street, with Hudson Boulevard on one side and Tenth Avenue on the other. Tishman Speyer was the developer and Turner Construction the builder, and the tower opened in 2023.
The building takes its name from outdoor gardens on each floor that spiral around the facade in a continuous green pathway. Bjarke Ingels Group designed it, as it did the nearby West 57, and Space Copenhagen provided the interior design. At the top, on the 66th floor, are a lounge, a clubhouse and a terrace open to the air that gives panoramic views of the city. Bosch supplied an irrigation system intended to cut water use by 4.5 million gallons a year compared with other systems.
The tower began as a 2014 concept, the Hudson Spire, with a roof height of 550 m (1,800 ft) and an architectural height of 610 m (2,000 ft), and it was billed as the Western Hemisphere's tallest building. Plans were filed in September 2016, construction topped out in January 2021, and in March 2023 it received the CoStar Impact Award, given for the New York City region's best commercial development.
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 | 86 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 107 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 137 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Stepped terraces on the facade
- Small terraces step diagonally up the facade in several places. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print, and 0.12–0.16 mm layers keep the steps crisp.
- A dense grid of window lines
- The facade is covered in a fine grid of window lines. A bigger print size keeps the grid readable, and Full detail keeps every line.
- 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 Spiral 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 Spiral 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 The Spiral 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 Spiral grows with the print: about 86 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.
