The money was being used to, among other things, build rooms where teenagers could go, known as "chill rooms," in health clinics.
The latest techniques in architectural acoustics, as used in Philadelphia's new Verizon Hall, allow architects to build rooms with variable acoustics.
"It's not called ROOM because we build rooms," Meisner-Jensen tells me.
Hoteliers cant build rooms fast enough to keep up with the demand, and so can jack up rates.
They molded the bricks to build rooms for the nurses.
He had built room for growth into the prostheses and would send duplicate parts as needed, training one of the adults in maintenance.
"When we moved in it was like a bunch of birds took LSD and just built rooms," she says of the building's previous tenants.
At times the building also provided a home to the show's contributors; some built rooms with scrounged materials on the empty top floor.
The Victorians built rooms with large windows; even their upper bedrooms were light and airy.
Imax's $2 million behemoth requires specially built rooms so as to provide an experience more similar to the company's cinema systems.
