Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, informally known as 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][4] 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.[citation needed]
History
The tower was the first realized component of the University of Minnesota's 1970s Health Sciences Complex plan, with a 1971 groundbreaking and an completion date in 1973.[5] The building was originally named Health Sciences Unit A before being renamed in 1983 for Malcolm Moos, president of the University from 1967 to 1974.[6] Moos Tower was designed by The Architects Collaborative as well as Cerny and Associates, HGA, and Setter Leach and Lindstrom.[4][7]
