www.onestopthali.co.uk Like a ballgown at a funeral, the gilded Colston Hall foyer – a loud, gold-clad new extension to the city's largest concert venue – seems rather out of keeping with the economic climate, but the food in the ground-floor H Bar is easy on the pocket.
The last areas of the hotel to be redone the front hall, foyer and reading room were completed in December 2001 by New York architect and designer Thierry Despont, whose firm also worked on the J. Paul Getty Museum and the restoration of the Statue of the Liberty.
The ballpark, like the team, is over-the-top in opulence, with 68 luxury suites and a 31,000 square foot "Great Hall" foyer.
Also, some of the floor area of an apartment is not included in the 80-square-foot calculation, like private halls, foyers, bathrooms or water closets.
Featuring more than 250 gigs, the London jazz festival 2012 brought musical thrills to packed halls, foyers and free stages at the Southbank and Barbican.
In that building, too, the halls and foyers were established as a public gallery, this one curated by a local professional artists' group called Studio Montclair.
All the rooms are traditional in style, with marble foyers and halls, and high-back poster beds.
And also numerous conversation clusters of love seats, upholstered chairs, small tables and lamps in unexpected areas, like front and upstairs halls, kitchens and bedroom foyers.
They regularly fill not just its three formal halls but also its riverside entrance foyers and terraces, which themselves become performance spaces hours before curtain time, with musicians and theatergoers making their own dramatic spectacle.
The amorphous forms are not random; their seemingly elastic surfaces grow and shrink according to the functions they house, which include restaurants, foyers, a roof garden and three concert halls that will seat from 200 and 2,000 people.
Until now, attending plays has been a second-rate experience at the Opera House, because, unlike the opera and concert halls, the theatres for drama have had no visual relationship with the harbor setting, and their foyers, spaces originally intended for backstage functions, were enclosed and cramped.
