The Technology Center, an addition to an existing three-floor, u-shaped building, is located at the end of the formal quadrangle, providing both literal and mission-based focus for the University.

The design of the Technology Center reflects the campus' changing mission. Originally a "normal" school, or teacher's college, NSU now sends instruction to schools throughout the state via its electronic classrooms. The addition supports and enhances learning with 'smart' classrooms, technology fellow and faculty offices, student technology support and computer repair facilities, broadcast and recording studios, laboratories, testing rooms and software support areas.

Interior classrooms and offices receive daylight and privacy from high, ribbon-glass windows in the feature wall adjacent to the corridor and curtain wall. Composed of a series of materials - wood, glass and wallboard painted in a variety of colors - bound together by an aluminum grid that complements the curtain wall, the panels appear random when viewed on each floor level, but are seen as a unified mosaic when viewed from outside at night through the expanse of glass.