Lobby (room)

{{Short description|Building entry room}} {{Redirect|Foyer|the method of transitional housing|Foyer (housing model)|other uses|Foyer (disambiguation)}} [[File:Apartment building lobby.jpg|thumb|Lobby of a contemporary apartment building in Washington, D.C.]] A '''lobby''' is a room in a building used for entry from the outside,<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Lobby |volume=16 |page=836}}</ref> sometimes referred to as a '''foyer''', '''entryway''', '''reception area''' or '''entrance hall'''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_xMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA358 |title=Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-982992-7 |pages=358 |language=en}}</ref> It is often a large room or complex of rooms in a large building such as a theatre, opera house, or movie theater adjacent to the auditorium. It may be a repose area for spectators, especially used before performance and during intermissions, but can also be a place of celebrations or festivities after performance. In other buildings, such as office buildings or condominiums, lobbies can function as gathering spaces between the entrance and elevators to other floors.

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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/13/realestate/lobbies-coming-back-into-their-own.html|title=Lobbies Coming Back Into Their Own |first=Paul|last=Goldberger|work=The New York Times |date=13 May 1984|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4189/is_20051111/ai_n15842507|title=Office lobbies become new battleground in landlords' fight to boost | Long Island Business News | Find Articles at BNET.com}}</ref> Some research has even been done to develop scales to measure lobby atmosphere to improve hotel lobby design.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3075649|title=An atmospheric scale for the evaluation of hotel lobbies|first=Cary Carl|last=Countryman|date=1 January 2001|journal=Theses and Dissertations Available from ProQuest|pages=1–118}}</ref> Designers of office buildings, hotels, and skyscrapers sometimes go to great lengths to decorate their lobbies to create the right impression and convey an image.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/biztravel/2006-02-13-lobbies-usat_x.htm|title=Hotels hope visitors check out livelier, upgraded lobby|newspaper=USA Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5072/is_48_23/ai_88698813|title=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 |newspaper=Los Angeles Business Journal}}</ref><ref>[http://www.wayofdesign.com/ebook/prestige.htm A Building Lobby, "Way of Design, Book One"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105091956/http://www.wayofdesign.com/ebook/prestige.htm |date=2007-01-05 }}</ref>

==Etymology== The word "lobby" comes from Medieval Latin ''lobia'', ''laubia'' or ''lobium''.<ref name=EB1911/>

==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="160"> File:Landgericht Berlin, Littenstraße, Eingangshalle (2), 160906, ako.jpg|Landgericht Berlin in Germany File:Sokos Hotel Torni Tampere lobby.jpg|Lobby at the Hotel Torni Tampere, Finland File:GranHotelCiudadDeMexico201712p1.jpg|Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico 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, Virginia </gallery>

==See also== * Atrium (architecture) * ''Genkan'' * Vestibule (architecture)

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