Skyscraper lobbies

[BrandonJXN]

I thought it would be interesting if anyone had pictures of the lobbies of skyscrapers since they are hard to find online. Post them if you have them.

Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta)

http://www.gpsinformation.net/exe/atlanta/bank-lob-a.jpg

[meh_cd]

Sears Tower in 2009.


Sears Tower lobby. by hoveringcheesecake, on Flickr


IMG_2361 by hoveringcheesecake, on Flickr

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Seagram building


http://lindsaypollock.com/wp929/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_3395.jpg

[wrab]

^ I love that Koons. Is it a permanent installation?

[jetsetter]

Bowery Savings Bank building, New York

See link for full panorama: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/10/28/nyregion/ROOMS.html

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Originally Posted by wrabbit

^ I love that Koons. Is it a permanent installation?

i believe so its been there for quite a while

[BrandonJXN]

Comcast Center (Philadelphia)

http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/briefingroom/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/nilesholiday1.jpg

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

ya Comcast is just amazing!

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Always liked these two

GE building

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...ia_Sert,_photo_by_Jaime_Ardiles-Arce.jpg

Woolworth Building

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/317599068_58fca14df8.jpg

[wrab]

While I'm not a big fan of Phillip Johnson's 190 LaSalle St Building overall, I gotta say that its lobby is beautiful:


http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=image&lng=3&id=520873

[Alliance]

For a modern building, I'd have to say 111 South Wacker in Chicago



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[Teakwood]

The New York Times Tower Lobby by myself

[Nowhereman1280]

Originally Posted by Alliance

For a modern building, I'd have to say 111 South Wacker in Chicago



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Oh definitely, I think this is one of the best lobbies in Chicago and one of the tops for the last 10 years in the world. Every little detail in that place is perfect. I love how everything on the two dimensional plain is spiral oriented while everything on the Vertical plane reflects the geometric boxiness of the massing of the tower. Check it out some time. There are no objects that appear round from the side in there. The only round shapes appear round when viewed from above. I love how the stonework from the floor continues out of the glass and all the way to the curbs as well. Just beautiful!


Heres another image of the base:


treehugger.com

[BrandonJXN]

Williams Tower (Houston)

http://www.emporis.com/img/6/2003/01/177929.jpg


http://www.emporis.com/img/6/2003/01/177933.jpg

[Jonboy1983]

Originally Posted by ThreeHundred

Comcast Center (Philadelphia)

http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/briefingroom/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/nilesholiday1.jpg

Waaaah waa-watussi...

Come on and take a chance; get in with this dance...

One of the many songs that played during those little videos portrayed on that ginormous screen. That has to be one of the sweetest lobbies of any building...

[hammersklavier]

Maybe I've seen it one too many times (what with being a local and all) but I'm starting to feel like the Comcast Center's lobby is too much a tourist trap. The plaza outside, on the other hand, is beautiful.

I'm wanting to say the Loews Hotel Philadelphia's lobby (aka the PSFS Building's) must be totally amazing, especially since the building is pretty much the single most architecturally significant building in the city.

[theWatusi]

Originally Posted by Jonboy1983

Waaaah waa-watussi...

Come on and take a chance; get in with this dance...

One of the many songs that played during those little videos portrayed on that ginormous screen. That has to be one of the sweetest lobbies of any building...

They play that as a tribute to me

[Jonboy1983]

Originally Posted by hammersklavier

Maybe I've seen it one too many times (what with being a local and all) but I'm starting to feel like the Comcast Center's lobby is too much a tourist trap. The plaza outside, on the other hand, is beautiful.

I'm wanting to say the Loews Hotel Philadelphia's lobby (aka the PSFS Building's) must be totally amazing, especially since the building is pretty much the single most architecturally significant building in the city.

The Loews Hotel is the single most architecturally significant building and Philadelphia City Hall is not? It was designed to resemble something out of France, and was one of the world's tallest buildings at the time of construction. It would have been the world's tallest, but the Eiffel Tower was completed years before City Hall was. Not to mention, didn't City Hall take roughly a decade to complete?

[hammersklavier]

Originally Posted by Jonboy1983

The Loews Hotel is the single most architecturally significant building and Philadelphia City Hall is not? It was designed to resemble something out of France, and was one of the world's tallest buildings at the time of construction. It would have been the world's tallest, but the Eiffel Tower was completed years before City Hall was. Not to mention, didn't City Hall take roughly a decade to complete?

30 years, actually. By the time it was finished, Second Empire had gone out of style and people were already clamoring to knock it down.

Yes, the PSFS Building is more architecturally significant. While City Hall is the world's tallest...well...city hall, and one of the largest extant examples of Second Empire architecture anywhere, the PSFS Building is the first truly International-style high-rise ever built in the United States, and is landmark in its use of neon as an aesthetic element. Essentially, the PSFS Building was the most avant-garde building in the country when it was finished--not unlike the later Seagram Building and Lever House in New York, or the Guggenheim Bilbao, and it has aged very, very well.

[Flamesrule]

Oh I like this thread! I'll digg out my photos on my computer and see if I have any.