It was designed by local architect Scherrer and Hicks with a combination of 1960s-brutalism and international style modernism architecture.

It was demolished in 2005 as the maths department moved to the Alan Turing Building on Upper Brook Street.

Both façades represented the current architectural movements of the era; modernism with flush glass panes and brutalism, marked by the use of concrete.

The newly formed university began a programme of renovating its campus buildings and subsequently the Maths Tower was deemed 'unfit for purpose'.

The site of the former tower is now occupied by a £55 million rotunda building called University Place, which houses a number of lecture theatres.