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Lobby of a contemporary apartment building in Washington, D.C.. A lobby is a room in a building used for entry from the outside. [1] Sometimes referred to as a foyer, entryway, reception area or entrance hall, [2] it is often a large room or complex of rooms (in a theatre, opera house, concert hall, showroom, cinema, etc.) adjacent to the auditorium.
The hotel was mostly constructed above Grand Central Terminal's railroad tracks, and different structural frameworks were used in the lower and upper stories. The ground level largely contained stores, and the lobby, dining rooms, and other public rooms were one floor above ground. The third through 18th floors contained 1,025 rooms.
The hotel's atrium lobby is placed on the eighth floor. [6] [31] [53] Because of security concerns when the hotel was constructed in the 1980s, there was originally only one set of escalators leading from street level to the hotel lobby. [53] A planted atrium rises 37 stories from the lobby to the rooftop restaurant. [54]
Standard Hotels is a group of eight boutique hotels in New York City (Meatpacking District and East Village), Miami Beach, London, Maldives, Ibiza, Bangkok and Hua Hin, Thailand. The hotels are operated by Standard International Management.
Hotelier André Balazs commissioned the building of the Standard. Although he owns a chain of hotels, this was the first he has actually built from the ground up. The hotel is located within the Meatpacking District. Most of the area is occupied by two-story 19th and 20th century manufacturing lofts and industrial buildings which were once ...
The lobby floor was made of Bardiglio marble with a black-and-gold border, while the wainscoting was made of verde antique marble. [14] The lobby also contains a carved plaster frieze on the walls. [15] Two marble columns in the lobby supported a ceiling with a Tiffany glass skylight, [14] [16] directly below the southern light court. [9]
The hotel contains a power plant and boiler room on its fourth basement, which was an early example of a cogeneration plant. The public rooms on the lower stories included a Manufacturers Trust bank branch, a double-height lobby, and multiple ballrooms and restaurants. Originally, the hotel had 2,503 guestrooms from the fourth story up.
First floor layout prior to the construction of the Palace Hotel The ground, or first, story of number 451 was the most elaborate story in the main residence. [ 18 ] At ground level, there was a reception vestibule, a drawing-room suite, a music room with a balcony, and a dining room with a pantry.