The current 20 storey-block is expected to be fully demolished by spring 2025.
At the time of its construction, it was considered the gold standard in student digs with sinks in every room.
Former students have been sharing memories, including those who met their future spouses while living in the block.
Paul Carr, who met his wife of 36 years, Jeni, there said: “It’s a very special place for us, for obvious reasons.”
“In early October 1983 Jeni and I met for the first time in one of the two lifts in the Owens Park Tower,” he said.
“It was my first day back in my second year as a Botany student, and Jeni’s first day in her first year to study Economics.
“She asked in that brief encounter if I was a first year student. At that moment I knew I’d met my future wife.”
