Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower | |
Altitude: | 260 meters[1] |
Architectural Style: | Brutalist |
Owner: | University of Minnesota |
Address: | 515 Delaware Street SE |
Location Country: | United States |
Groundbreaking Date: | 1971 |
Completion Date: | 1974 |
Height: | 90 meters |
Floor Count: | 19 |
The Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, informally known as the Moos Tower is a building on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[2] Inside Moos Tower are labs and faculty offices for the College of Dentistry and a Caribou Coffee with a designated study lounge. The entrance of Biomedical library can also be found in Moos Tower.
Moos Tower is the tallest building on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus[3] and is an example of Brutalist architecture.[4] The building is often theorized to have been built to resemble a tooth, due to the College of Dentistry's presence inside.
The building is named for Malcolm Moos, who was president of the University from 1967 to 1974.[5] Moos Tower was designed by The Architects Collaborative as well as Cerny and Associates, HGA, and Setter Leach and Lindstrom in about 1970.[6]