[4] It was designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, LLC in the late 1980s for the Merck & Co. pharmaceutical company.

In October 2013, Merck & Co. reversed course and said its headquarters would move to Kenilworth, New Jersey, and that the 88-acre (36 ha) Summit campus would be sold after being vacated on December 31, 2014.

[9] Constructed in 1990 as a home for the headquarters staff of Merck & Co., the building is most recognizable for its hexagon shape and its nature setting.

[3] Further, Merck & Co. placed the parking structure underground and created a temporary nursery on-site for the trees removed during construction, in order to make the facility a "corporate cottage in the woods".

[1][10] The initial site plan foresaw the subsequent addition of two buildings to create a grid of three connected hexagons, however, after a change in management, it was indicated that further construction in the original style would not occur.