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Tower Square is a 29-story
commercial office An office is a space where the employees of an organization perform Business administration, administrative Work (human activity), work in order to support and realize the various goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a po ...
building located in
Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield is the most populous city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, and its county seat. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the ea ...
. With a height of , Tower Square is the second tallest building in both Springfield, and in Massachusetts outside of Boston. The building has approximately . The building was developed by Mass Mutual. Constructed in 1970 by
Pietro Belluschi Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 – February 14, 1994) was an Italian-American architect. A leading figure in modern architecture, he was responsible for the design of over 1,000 buildings.Belluschi, Pietro. (2007). In ''Encyclopædia Britanni ...
; it was designed in the
international style The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. It is defined by strict adherence to Functionalism (architecture), functional and Fo ...
.


Change from MassMutual to Wellfleet

During 2019, MassMutual removed its logo from the Tower Square. At summer time in 2021, Wellfleet added their logo to the top of the building facing the Memorial Bridge.


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Metro Center, Springfield, Massachusetts Metro Center is the original colonial settlement of Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, located beside a bend in the Connecticut River. As of 2019, Metro Center features a majority of Western Massachusetts' most important cultural, busines ...
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Monarch Place Monarch Place is a skyscraper with ground-floor retail spaces, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. Monarch Place is the tallest building in Springfield, the tallest building in Massachusetts outside of Boston, and the eighth tallest building ...
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List of tallest buildings in Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, features relatively few skyscrapers compared its peer cities, due to a 1908 Massachusetts state law limiting the city's building height to 125', which remained in effect until 1970. In 1907-08, the const ...
* List of tallest buildings Massachusetts outside of Boston *
List of tallest buildings in Boston Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the largest city in New England, is home to 585 completed high-rises, 37 of which stand taller than . The city's skyscrapers and high-rises are concentrated along the roughly 2.5 ...


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