3D print The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa
A free, printable model of The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, a chain of connected wings, and the golf course, pond and roads around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa
Phoenix, Arizona, has a luxury hotel in its Kierland district: The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa. Investors headed by Woodbine Development Corporation's southwest division, based in Dallas, Texas, developed it. One of them, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, from White Plains in New York, ran the hotel under the Westin brand. Hill Glazier Architects, of Palo Alto, California, designed it, with interiors by Barry Associates of Los Angeles, and Sundt Construction of Phoenix began work in 2000.
The resort opened in 2002, five months ahead of schedule. At that point no hotel in Arizona was larger or taller, and its connecting wings ranged from five to eleven floors. Event space totals 5,600 m2 (60,000 square feet), including the Kierland Grand Ballroom, and it was seen as the centerpiece of the development, sitting between Kierland Commons and the Kierland Golf Club, both already built.
The Kierland area covers 730 acres (300 ha), and work on it began in 1989 as a project mixing housing, retail and offices. The hotel and the development are in Phoenix, just on its side of the line with Scottsdale. Kierland's ZIP code carries a Scottsdale mailing address, so people often assume it is in Scottsdale, though it is in Phoenix proper.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 750 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 | 9 mm | 1:4,688 |
| 200 mm | 12 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 256 mm | 15 mm | 1:2,930 |
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- Many roof ridges
- The long chain of wings has many hipped roofs and small gables. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps the ridges and eaves crisp, and a larger print keeps the smaller roofs readable.
- Wide, low footprint
- The resort is long and low, so it prints stable but small. "Print friendly" adapts tiny window and cornice details to the print scale; "Full detail" keeps them on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa 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 Westin Kierland Resort & Spa 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 Westin Kierland Resort & Spa 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 Westin Kierland Resort & Spa 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 Westin Kierland Resort & Spa grows with the print: about 9 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.
