Best lobby you've ever been to? (RL or SL)

[Gopi Passiflora]

I made this topic to get an inspiration for what I should do for the atrium lobby of my skyscraper.

I generally like spacious lobbies that allow ambient sunlight to come in. The Hyatt in Chicago is one example I can think of.

[Chic Aeon]

LOL well that was MY PICK (I only saw the first line in the thread previews). Hard one to beat. 

[Gopi Passiflora]

Great minds think alike I guess!

[Chic Aeon]

2 minutes ago, Gopi Passiflora said:

Great minds think alike I guess!

Sorry while I think I have been to the Hyatt in Chicago, I was thinking of the one in 

SAN FRANCISCO!!!!

There is an impressive bar further in the foreground out of the picture. Impressive elevators. When I was there -- more plants dangling down. 

[animats]

That's a John Portman design. He did several like that in the 1960s.

The trouble with doing a skyscraper in SL is that you run out of prims and get a shell building. The best tall building I ever saw in SL is the SYZM Tower in Northbridge. 14 useful floors.Good attention to detail.

 

Lower lobby with retail.

This is the headquarters of the SYZM conglomerate,  major sellers of modern roleplay equipment in SL. Police cars, phone systems, work vehicles, office equipment - they have it all, and they have a big mall nearby where it's sold. The building has elevators and many furnished offices.

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[Selene Gregoire]

Google "garden lobby" to find absolutely stunning lobbies like this:

Crowne Plaza Shanghai Anting

No, I've never been there but you don't need to visit a place to be inspired by it.

[Gopi Passiflora]

Thanks for the suggestions! Beautiful lobbies!

As for my skyscraper, the building itself is 77 Land Impact (55 prims.) It was made by Anna Erotica who is known for making relatively low prim buildings.

[Lindal Kidd]

Well...it's not REALLY self-promotion, because the building wasn't my original design.  But I've always liked the lobby of my condo tower in Masocado.

 

[Scylla Rhiadra]

8 hours ago, animats said:

That's a John Portman design. He did several like that in the 1960s.

The trouble with doing a skyscraper in SL is that you run out of prims and get a shell building. The best tall building I ever saw in SL is the SYZM Tower in Northbridge. 14 useful floors.Good attention to detail.

 

Lower lobby with retail.

This is the headquarters of the SYZM conglomerate,  major sellers of modern roleplay equipment in SL. Police cars, phone systems, work vehicles, office equipment - they have it all, and they have a big mall nearby where it's sold. The building has elevators and many furnished offices.

Brutalism for the win!

This is too much like visiting a banking headquarters or law firm. Neither of which, personally, fills me with warm fuzzies.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

Here's a pic of Frank Gehry's remake of the Eaton Court, which is the main lobby of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Gehry redid much of the building, adding beautifully warm wood everywhere, twisted into sensual curves and spirals. His renovations are themselves art worthy of visiting the gallery to see.

And here is the Galleria Italia that runs along the front of the building. From the outside, it looks like a billowing sail.

 

[Bree Giffen]

A good lobby needs tall columns, plants, couches and an aquarium. Sorry, couldn't find a real world example.

[Josephine Carissa]

I really like art deco its so classy : )

 

[Lindal Kidd]

12 hours ago, Josephine Carissa said:

I really like art deco its so classy : )

 

That's gorgeous.  Is it in SL?  If so, does it use the "mirror build under the floor" trick to get the reflections?

[Madelaine McMasters]

5 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

That's gorgeous.  Is it in SL?  If so, does it use the "mirror build under the floor" trick to get the reflections?

It is gorgeous,  but it's RL. The reflections in the floor aren't straight, indicating that the floor isn't perfectly flat. I remember being so very impressed the first time I stumbled across the "mirror build under the floor" trick, and using it to make a shiny floor for a skybox.

[Lindal Kidd]

Just now, Madelaine McMasters said:

It is gorgeous,  but it's RL. The reflections in the floor aren't straight, indicating that the floor isn't perfectly flat. I remember being so very impressed the first time I stumbled across the "mirror build under the floor" trick, and using it to make a shiny floor for a skybox.

Drat.  I had visions of re-doing the Masocado Towers lobby like it.

[Lindal Kidd]

12 hours ago, Bree Giffen said:

A good lobby needs tall columns, plants, couches and an aquarium. Sorry, couldn't find a real world example.

Got everything but the aquarium.