Sitting in the open lobby looking out at the sunny street is a pretty perfect Madrid moment.
For a relaxed atmosphere, try the WESTIN (203-967-2222, $129 twinklingwhere twinkling candles fill the open lobby in the evening.
The climbing holds have been removed, but the Cliff Lodge remains an impressive landmark, with its 11-storey high open lobby and stunning rooftop pool.
The open lobby area on the main level has also been completed, with glass doors on either side of a curved wall leading to classrooms, studios and offices.
The dancers stream in and out through the flung-open lobby doors, sometimes disappearing for chunks of time, sometimes making their way to the balcony for various, inscrutable activities.
And it is in one such vague zone, in the open lobby between the developer's marketing suite and the gated world of the art college, that Wentworth's project intervenes.
Heller, her husband, her three children and her in-laws were among dozens of families seated at big round tables in what she and a relative who spoke to the Guardian recall was an open lobby.
Automatic sliding glass doors leading to the main library and metal lattice gates that slide out of the walls by the circulation desk close these spaces off from the open lobby and rooms on the floor below.
But the space where the Signature has ended up instead — in the base of a residential high rise now being built on West 42nd Street — has retained some of the key elements of the original project: three theaters of varying sizes; an open lobby with a cafe and a bookstore; and the prominent Mr. Gehry as designer.
The cynicism of Lindsey May's Open Lobby, which aims to fill "underused, overlooked" office lobby space with more (albeit public) workspace, was countered by Damian Rogers' charming plan to build a surf park at the Melbourne Docklands, and the recently formed New York City Real Estate Investment Co-operative's strategy for offering property financing to community-serving groups.
