Atriums

[N0rthcar0lina]

Sorry didn't know where to put this so I came to skybar :}

I went to Atlanta 2 years ago and while sightseeing I saw the atrium of the Mariott Marquis



It was so high it made me dizzy

Does anyone know of other tall atriums like this? I think they're fascinating

[Tom Servo]

Jin Mao Building




Burj Al Arab




*wiki

[Ayreonaut]

I think the Bow in Calgary is going to have a big one.

[KevinFromTexas]

The tallest one I know of in Texas is Houston's Hyatt Regency. It's 30 floors tall. The building itself is 401 feet, but the roof is maybe ~350 feet. So the atrium is maybe around 340 feet high.

[M.K.]

Not exactly like this, cause I would post the Burj Al Arab of colleague above , so I decided to put the most interesting I have ever visited.

1-The 6-floor high lowrise aquarium inside the 10-storey Radisson Hotel in Berlin.
I went 3 times at hotel lobby or atrium just to appreciate the aquarium and getting the hidraulic elevator inside. Amazing....



2-The Atrium of Costa Serena Ship is the best I've also seen in Cruise Ships:


but then it is ships, very comparable, as for example is a highrise of 11-storey, but I know in the RCCL the Atriums are even better.

3- Hotel Maksoud Sao Paulo
Very nice as well

but clear not so big like Jin Mao...

4- a smaller version but also very nice, hotel Panoramahaus Sheraton Dornbirn Austria has something similar
5- Hotel Comfort in Fortaleza Brazil

[Steely Dan]

the most architecturally stunning atrium in chicago is inside the helmut jahn designed thompson center. the building functions as the seat of state government in chicago (a kind of secondary state capitol building if you will, but without any attached legislatures), and as such the atrium is allegedly jahn's reinterpretation of a classical capitol building rotunda done in a modern vocabulary. many criticized the colors for being a bit too garish, but i've never really minded them. the building isn't a complete success from the outside, but the public atrium is simply spectacular, jahn at his best.


source: http://www.richard-seaman.com/USA/Ci...sonCenter1.jpg

[sprtsluvr8]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

The tallest one I know of in Texas is Houston's Hyatt Regency. It's 30 floors tall. The building itself is 401 feet, but the roof is maybe ~350 feet. So the atrium is maybe around 340 feet high.

The 1985 Marriott Marquis was the largest in the world at 470 feet. It was just recently blown away by the Burj Al-Arab in Dubai.


The original atrium hotel, John Portman's 1967 Hyatt Regency in Atlanta.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/scilit/2074958644/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/scilit/...n/photostream/


CNN/Omni Hotel atrium, Atlanta


http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianmcconnell/2249140584/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyprien/18970357/


The Georgian Terrace Hotel atrium, Atlanta


http://www.flickr.com/photos/michellelyles/412145033/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/justanu...rl/1355718851/

[Vinu007]

The biggest atrium i have ever seen was in the Chicago museum :p.. nice pics..

[staff]

Grand Hyatt, Jin Mao, Shanghai.

[Scruffy]

The NYC marriott marquis has a 45 story atrium.

[KevinFromTexas]

The tallest one in Austin is the Omni Downtown Hotel. It's 220 feet. Still the highest open air space in Austin is the Capitol rotunda which is 266 feet tall. It's actually one of the tallest rotundas in the world.

Originally Posted by sprtsluvr8

The 1985 Marriott Marquis was the largest in the world at 470 feet. It was just recently blown away by the Burj Al-Arab in Dubai.

I was talking about the tallest in Texas, not the world. I was sure others had us beat quite efficiently.

I'm surprised Jin Mao doesn't have a higher one. I would expect it to have the tallest one. What is the height on it? I know it doesn't start on the first floor.

[mersar]

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

I think the Bow in Calgary is going to have a big one.

The one difference with the Bow is that the atrium is divided into 3, with a full floorplate skylobby staggered roughly every 20 floors (of the 58 floor tower). If it wasn't for the lobbies the atrium would a continous one in excess of 800 feet tall.

[lfc4life]

certainly not the tallest but i believe the biggest atrium in the world is that of the Luxor Hotel in las vegas, the 30 story atrium measures some 29 million cubic feet and can accommodate 13 Boeing 747 airplanes without a problem

a small sample of its size



http://blog.dr2ooo.com/wp-content/ph...xor_inside.jpg

[Trantor]

funny, there are MAYAN pyramids inside!


there is an hotel in my city with an 18 stories atrium. But I dont have internal pictures of it.

[initiald]

Here are a few I've been in:

Shinjuku NS Building, Tokyo - 30 floors





Renaissance Waverly Hotel, Atlanta - 14 floors