Engineering Center

The Lurie Engineering Center represents a unique and positive collaboration between Moore / Andersson Architects in Austin, Texas and Hobbs + Black Architects in Ann Arbor.  The five-story Engineering Center provides the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering with a new focal point for its administrative and academic life.  The 65,000 square foot facility houses the College’s Central Administration and provides spaces for student, faculty and administrative support.  The design of the Center organizes these functions into a cluster of small scale buildings which combine to form a new entry identity for the College of Engineering.

Carillon Tower

Designed as a companion structure to The Engineering Center Building, the 165 foot tall Ann and Robert Lurie Carillon Tower houses a sixty-bell carillon and observation deck and serves as a focal point for the University of Michigan's North Campus.  Inspired by the University's Central Campus carillon, the new tower features bells designed and cast by the renowned Royal Eijsbouts bellfoundry in The Netherlands and is recognized as the most significant carillon installation in the United States in the past sixty years.  The largest bell, the six-ton Bourdon Bell, is used to strike the hour across the campus.