Talk:Sky lobby

WTC was the first to use them?
Didn't the John Hancock Center use skylobbies first? Ouuplas 05:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Ouuplas, I believe so. Otis elevators installed such system in Sears tower, too. There indeed are older structures with such system. But it's the media that's talking with such notion about WTC (always in a derogatory sense, like "it was first of a kind, not tested..."). Can someone find out more about this? Endimion17 2:48, November 3rd 2006, UTC

The original WTC was one of the first to use them at 2 parts at each tower. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.53.6.242 (talk) 11:51, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Edits and page move
I've added that the John Hancock Center was the first to use sky lobbies and I've cited a reference for it from the Otis website. A better reference should be found, probably in print. I've also moved this page to sky lobby because not only does it get many more google hits than skylobby, it is also the term used on the Otis website. Graham 87 04:05, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I've done some more reorganisation. What floors had sky lobbies in the John Hancock Center? I couldn't find this information online. Graham 87 04:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The Otis source is a 1967 print article about the World Trade Center that simply says of sky lobbies that "This system will also be employed in the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago". It looks like (at least according to Wikipedia articles) the WTC plans were unveiled in January 1964 and the John Hancock Center was "originally conceived" in late 1964, but the WTC took longer to build and the JHC opened first. Which building was "first to use" sky lobbies is ambiguous, but since we don't have any source ruling out earlier buildings with sky lobbies, I've toned the statement down to simply say that both buildings were "early uses".
 * Either way, I've removed the claim that sky lobbies were invented by Fazlur Khan, the architect of the JHC, which was inserted with no sources and is repeated unsourced on other articles. I can't find anything to support this assertion. --McGeddon (talk) 09:32, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

WTC?
WHY is the World Trade Center in this article? It's demolished by a terrorist attack, never exists to be taken up again, yet the article acts like the buildings are still standing, they're not, they're GONE, demolished, forever forgotten, please remove them from this article, as they don't need to remain, as they are gone. Thank you.--75.0.33.123 (talk) 11:09, 4 September 2011 (UTC)


 * As some of the first buildings to contain a sky lobby, the WTC twin towers are highly relevant to the sky lobby article. This article clearly says that the WTC is no longer standing. Graham 87 14:22, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

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This Article doesn't address skylobbies in short buildings
This article assumes that the problems a sky-lobby resolves are only those related to great height. I've noticed that when a new modern building is a lollipop over a very short pre-War building, there is a sky-lobby between the 20th and 30th floors, as at the lollipop on top of Saks Fifth Avenue and the one at 450 Lexington Avenue built on top of what was then and maybe still is a United States Post Office. Why is it that in a building of fewer than 50 storeys they cannot make an elevator go all the way to the top without a transfer through a sky-lobby on a VERY LOW floor?74.64.104.99 (talk) 04:24, 29 June 2019 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson

The wrong image of the "sky lobby" at Central Plaza, Hongkong
The first image described as the "sky lobby in the Central Plaza at Hongkong" is wrongly posted here as it evidently doesn't show a sky lobby! The same image is used on the article "Central Plaza (Hong Kong)" and described there as "the Sky City Church lounge area" and the Sky City Church is located on the 75th floor (of 78 total), so in the apex, not on the "intermediate floor" according to the sky lobby definition and has nothing in common with the elevators 212.160.202.160 (talk) 13:21, 13 December 2021 (UTC).