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Sky lobby
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A sky lobby is an intermediate floor where people can change from an express elevator that only stops at the sky lobby to a local elevator which stops at every floor within a segment of the building. When designing very tall (supertall) buildings supplying enough elevators is a problem. The sky lobby, first used in the John Hancock Center in Chicago,[1] is one approach to the problem, because travellers to specific floors do not tie up the main elevator due to getting on and off, increasing the efficiency of the 'long-distance' elevators, and reducing the number of elevator shafts at a given point.
(in chronological order by construction date)
- John Hancock Center in Chicago
- 1 World Trade Center (Two sky lobbies at 44th and 78th floors) in New York City
- 2 World Trade Center (Two sky lobbies at 44th and 78th floors) in New York City
- Sears Tower (Two double level sky lobbies at 33rd/34th and 66th/67th floors) in Chicago
- Columbia Center (Sky lobby at 40th floor) in Seattle, Washington, USA
- Izumi Garden Tower in Tokyo, Japan
- Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia located at level 47/48
- Taipei 101 (Two double level sky lobbies at 35th/36th and 59th/60th floors) in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
- ^ Otis History: The World Trade Center. Otis Elevator Company. Retrieved on 2006-12-07.