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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 is often a large room or complex of rooms (in a ">A Building Lobby, "Way of Design, Book One"
File:World Trade Center South Tower lobby interior, 1988.jpg, 2 World Trade Center lobby interior, overlooking the elevator core and red carpet from the balcony (October 1988)
File:Palais Garnier's grand salon, 12 February 2008.jpg, Opera House of Paris, Palais Garnier's grand salon
File:Landgericht Berlin, Littenstraße, Eingangshalle (2), 160906, ako.jpg, Landgericht Berlin in Germany
File:Sokos Hotel Torni Tampere lobby.jpg, Lobby at the Sokos Hotel Torni in Tampere, Finland
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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 is often a large room or complex of rooms (in a theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perfor ...
, opera house
An opera house is a theater (structure), theatre building used for performances of opera. It usually includes a Stage (theatre), stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and building sets.
While some venu ...
, concert hall
A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats.
This list does not include other venues such as sports stadia, dramatic theatres or convention centres that m ...
, showroom, cinema, etc.) adjacent to the auditorium. It may be a repose area for spectators, especially used before performance and during intermissions, but also as a place of celebrations or festivities after performance.
Since the mid-1980s, there has been a growing trend to think of lobbies as more than just ways to get from the door
A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress (entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a ''doorway'' or ''portal''. A door's essential and primary purpose is to provide security b ...
to the elevator
An elevator or lift is a cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or decks of a building, vessel, or other structure. They ar ...
but instead as social spaces and places of commerce. Some research has even been done to develop scales to measure lobby atmosphere to improve hotel lobby design. Many office buildings, hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a ref ...
s and skyscrapers go to great lengths to decorate their lobbies to create the right impression and convey an image.Etymology
FromMedieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin
Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a Literary language, literary standard language, standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It was used f ...
''lobia'', ''laubia'' or ''lobium''.
Gallery
Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico
Old Portal de Mercaderes in the historic center of Mexico City was and is the west side of the main plaza (otherwise known as the "Zócalo"). This side of the plaza has been occupied by commercial structures since the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec ...
File:Elevators vestibule with flower bouquets at InterContinental Hotel Singapore.jpg, Elevator lobby at the InterContinental Hotel Singapore
File:Lobby of the hotel Crowne Plaza Vientiane.jpg, Lobby of the Crowne Plaza Vientiane hotel in Laos
File:Pless Palace - the Entrance Hall.jpg, Pszczyna Castle in southwestern Poland
File:Mauritius Intercontinental-Mauritius Resort-Balaclava-Fort-01.jpg, Lobby of the InterContinental Mauritius Resort Balaclava Fort
File:Hudson Institute lobby.jpg, Reception area of the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.
File:Synetic Theater lobby.jpg, Lobby of Synetic Theater in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, United States
File:Key Tower Lobby Sculpture 01.jpg, The lobby in the Key Tower building in Cleveland
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...
, Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...
.
File:front door (23200352782).jpg, Entryway of an apartment in the United States, looking at the front door
File:Silha Mud Room (3769553183).jpg, A "mudroom" at Camp Warren summer camp
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, Minnesota
See also
*Atrium (architecture)
In architecture, an atrium (plural: atria or atriums) is a large open-air or skylight-covered space surrounded by a building.
Atria were a common feature in Ancient Roman dwellings, providing light and ventilation to the interior. Modern atria, ...
* Genkan
* Vestibule (architecture)
A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space such as a lobby, entrance hall or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space view, reducing heat loss, providing storage spac ...
References
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