Lobby (room)

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A lobby is a room in a building which is used for entry from the outside. Sometimes referred to as a foyer or an entrance hall.

Many office buildings, hotels and skyscrapers go to great lengths to decorate their lobbies to create the right impression[1][2] [3].

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. [4][5]Some research has even been done to develop scales to measure lobby atmosphere in order to improve hotel lobby design [6].

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Hotel lobby

Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service lobby

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  1. ^ USATODAY.com - Hotels hope visitors check out livelier, upgraded lobby
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ A Building Lobby, "Way of Design, Book One"
  4. ^ Lobbies Coming Back Into Their Own - New York Times
  5. ^ Office lobbies become new battleground in landlords' fight to boost | Long Island Business News | Find Articles at BNET.com
  6. ^ An atmospheric scale for the evaluation of hotel lobbies
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