3D print Water Tower Place
A free, printable 3D model of Water Tower Place in Chicago, with the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Water Tower Place 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
- 262 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 70 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
262 m of Water Tower Place, 70 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.
- A tall tower to print slowly
This is a tall building, so a 0.12–0.16 mm layer height keeps the vertical lines crisp. Printing slowly with good cooling helps the upper floors come out clean.
- One piece with the ground
Water Tower Place 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. Water Tower Place 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 Water Tower Place
Water Tower Place is a mixed-use urban development in Chicago, Illinois, made up of a shopping mall covering 70,400 m2 (758,000 sq ft), a Ritz Carlton hotel and luxury condominiums. The mall lies along the Magnificent Mile, on North Michigan Avenue. Its name comes from the nearby historic Chicago Water Tower, a building that survived the Great Chicago Fire.
Urban Retail Properties, led by Philip Morris Klutznick, together with his son Thomas J. Klutznick, built the skyscraper in 1975. Edward D. Dart, a modernist architect with the firm Loebl Schlossman Bennett and Dart, served as chief architect. The tower itself is a reinforced concrete slab, 859 feet (262 m) tall and faced with gray marble. When finished, it was the world's tallest reinforced concrete building.
Below the tower is a block-long base holding an atrium-style retail mall, which fronts on the Magnificent Mile. Its opening moved the retail center of gravity of downtown Chicago away from State Street and toward North Michigan Avenue. In 1986 the Urban Land Institute gave the project a J.C. Nichols Prize.
About this model
Water Tower Place 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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