3D print Tower 42
A free, printable 3D model of Tower 42 in London, with the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Tower 42 in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 183 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 50 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
183 m of Tower 42, 50 mm on your shelf
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.
- Tall tower, slow printing
A tall tower rewards slow printing and good cooling near the top. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps vertical detail crisp, and a larger print size keeps small details.
- One piece with the ground
Tower 42 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. Tower 42 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 Tower 42
Tower 42, also called the NatWest Tower, is a skyscraper, 183 m (600 ft) tall, in the City of London. R Seifert & Partners designed it and Pell Frischmann engineered it. In 1980 it opened as London's first skyscraper, and at that time it was the UK's tallest building. It stands at 25 Old Broad Street and was built as NatWest's international headquarters. Queen Elizabeth II formally opened it on June 11, 1981.
John Mowlem & Co built it from 1971 on a large concrete core with the floors cantilevered out from it. Of its 47 levels above ground, 42 are cantilevered, which explains the name Tower 42 that it later adopted. Each cantilevered floor is made up of three segments, called leaves, matching the NatWest logo's three chevrons when seen in plan. Seen from above, the tower resembles that logo.
In 1990 One Canada Square at Canary Wharf became London's and the UK's tallest building. Tower 42 stayed the City of London's tallest until the 230 m (750 ft) Heron Tower passed it in 2010. The 1993 Bishopsgate bombing severely damaged it, and NatWest then fully refurbished and reclad the building.
About this model
Tower 42 is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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