Tomorrow the Georgia Institute of Technology will dedicate the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, a project that officials say is one of the most expensive in the institution’s history.

Georgia Tech hopes that the $90-million, 190,000-square-foot complex will attract companies to Atlanta, making the city and Georgia Tech a nanotechnology hub. (News releases about the building compare nanotechnology in Atlanta to technology in Silicon Valley.) The building reportedly has one of the largest clean rooms in the country. See a video of the building here.

The Marcus Foundation—the philanthropic organization supported by Bernie Marcus, the Home Depot founder—gave $15-million toward the building.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/architecture/2752/georgia-tech-bets-on-a-nanotechnology-center-for-atlanta