Lobby (room)

A lobby is a room in a building used for entry from the outside. Sometimes referred to as a foyer, reception area or an entrance hall, it often is a large room or complex of rooms (in a theatre, opera house, concert hall, showroom, cinema, etc.) adjacent to the auditorium. It is a repose area for spectators and place of venues, especially used before performance and during intermissions but also as a place of celebrations or festivities after performance.

"Foyer" redirects here. For the method of transitional housing, see Foyer (housing model).
2 World Trade Center lobby interior, overlooking the elevator core and red carpet from the balcony (October 1988)
Opera House of Paris, Palais Garnier's grand salon

Since the mid-1980s, there has been a growing trend to think of lobbies as more than just ways to get from the door to the elevator but instead as social spaces and places of commerce.[1][2] Some research has even been done to develop scales to measure lobby atmosphere to improve hotel lobby design.[3] Many office buildings, hotels and skyscrapers go to great lengths to decorate their lobbies to create the right impression and convey an image.[4][5][6]

Supertall skyscrapers can often have one or more of what is known as a sky lobby, an intermediate floor where people can change from an express elevator that stops only at the sky lobby to a local elevator which stops at every floor within a segment of the building.


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References
  1. Lobbies Coming Back Into Their Own - New York Times
  2. Office lobbies become new battleground in landlords' fight to boost | Long Island Business News | Find Articles at BNET.com
  3. An atmospheric scale for the evaluation of hotel lobbies
  4. USATODAY.com - Hotels hope visitors check out livelier, upgraded lobby
  5. Lobbying for space: renovated and revived office building lobbies seek to make the segue from garages and the street inviting to office workers and pedestrians alike - Style - Brief Article | Los Angeles Business Journal | Find Articles at BNET.com
  6. A Building Lobby, "Way of Design, Book One" Archived 2007-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
  • The dictionary definition of foyer at Wiktionary
  • Media related to Lobbies (room) at Wikimedia Commons
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