The complex also included a new, 100,000-square-foot, five-story glass tower. The laboratory tower rises above the Crossroads, doubling the school's research capabilities. The tower provides modular laboratories, classrooms, interaction areas, and community-focused research space while providing an ephemeral backdrop reflecting the sky. 70,000 square feet of the original buildings were renovated for office and dry lab research space.

The labs themselves house environmental quality, toxicology, virology, and bacteriology research and extend the length of the building's east side. Smaller support labs are located along the corridor wall but accessed from the modules. These include hood alcoves, cold and warm rooms, tissue culture rooms, and equipment rooms. Noise and heat generating equipment are concentrated in the support labs, where they can be efficiently controlled. Shared equipment and preparation labs, interposed between offices for research staff, are located on the west side of the building.