Fifth Third Center, Commercial skyscraper in Fountain Square, Cincinnati, United States
Fifth Third Center is a glass-and-steel office tower in the International Style, standing in the heart of downtown Cincinnati. The building rises 30 floors to about 423 feet (129 m) and is one of the tallest structures in the city skyline.
The tower was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and completed in 1969, during a period when Cincinnati was actively reshaping its downtown core. It was part of a broader urban renewal effort that transformed the look of the city center.
The building takes its name from Fifth Third Bank, one of the largest banks in the Midwest, which uses it as a regional base. People working downtown treat it as a landmark that anchors the financial side of the city center.
The building is on Walnut Street in downtown Cincinnati and easy to reach on foot from most of the central area. Because it functions as a private office building, the interior is not open to the general public.
Harrison & Abramovitz, the firm behind this tower, also designed the Rockefeller Center in New York, which gives a sense of the ambition Cincinnati had for this project. That connection places the building within a broader story of 20th-century American architecture that most passersby never consider.
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