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One Summit Square / Indiana Michigan Power Center (1982) — Kevin Roche's Tower

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Summit Bank Building, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Summit Bank Building, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source file

Fort Wayne's tallest building was designed by one of the century's leading firms. One Summit Square, completed in 1982 to designs of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, rises 27 stories and 442 feet — the tallest building in Fort Wayne and, as it is commonly billed, the tallest reinforced-concrete building in Indiana. Roche's design makes the slab read as two structures: the office tower and, attached to it, a slimmer tower housing the elevators. Roche received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1982, the year the building was completed. The tower rose on the Washington-and-Calhoun site of the old Wolf & Dessauer department store, opened as the Summit National Bank Building, and carried the One Summit Square name from 1982 to 2014, when it was renamed the Indiana Michigan Power Center for its principal tenant.

Sources: Wikipedia, "Indiana Michigan Power Center"; UrbanOhio, "Fort Wayne's Tallest — One Summit Square" (2008), for the Wolf & Dessauer site and the Roche attribution.

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Source: One Summit Square / Indiana Michigan Power Center (1982) — Kevin Roche's Tower, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/architecture/one-summit-square-indiana-michigan-power-center-1982-kevin/