an outdoor foyer sounds cool but we always forget that our weather sucks 6 months of the year.
Understood that they won't have the $ for a grand foyer. But I'd like to see have some height. Soaring ceilings and glass curtain wall wouldn't cost that much more. Use the second floor inside the foyer as a balcony like Sheraton.
if you look at the new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago it's just cinderblock, glass curtain, metal roof with exo-steel frame, but impressive given the low cost design and materials.
this something Calendonia would build.