Illustration credits .......................................... vii
Notes on contributors .......................................... ix
Introduction - Hotel lobbies: anonymous domesticity and
public discretion .............................................. 01
1 Beyond the lobby: setting the stage for modernity - the
cosmos of the hotel ......................................... 03
Franziska Bollerey
2 Learning from Los Angeles: Hollywood hotel lobbies .......... 49
Anne Massey
3 The architectonics of the hotel lobby: the norms and
forms of a public-private figure ............................ 59
Tom Avermaete
4 The hotel lobby and local/global journeys ................... 72
Greg Votolato
5 Shifting spaces ............................................. 89
Graeme Brooker
6 Tracing tracks: illusion and reality at work in the lobby .. 103
Rajesh Heynickx
Case studies .................................................. 119
The Ritz, Paris: looking to eighteenth-century France
through the lens of nineteenth-century historicism for
a twentieth-century hotel lobby ......................... 120
Mark Hinchman
Strand Palace Hotel, London ................................ 126
Lyanne Holcombe
Imperial Hotel, Tokyo ...................................... 130
Greg Votolato
Grand Hotel Gooiland, 1936 ................................. 138
Tom Avermaete
Hotel Le Corbusier: the extended lobby, the resident as
guest and the Unite d'Habitation as hotel .................. 140
Nick Leech
Watergate Hotel ............................................ 145
Stefano Milani
The Amsterdam Hilton Hotel: Old Amsterdam's Little
America .................................................... 151
Filip Geerts
SAS Hotel, Copenhagen: Arne Jacobsen, 1955-60 .............. 155
Joan Ockman
The war lobby of Prora: KdF Seebad on Rügen ................ 165
Filip Geerts
Exploding the lobby: Hyatt Regency, Atlanta ................ 171
Charles Rice
The Viru Hotel, Tallinn: modernist in form, late
socialist in content ....................................... 178
Andres Kurg
Hôtel des Thermes, Dax: Jean Nouvel and Emmanuel
Cattani, 1992 .............................................. 186
Hans Teerds
Hotel Lakolk, Rømø, Denmark: Friis and Moltke, 1966 ........ 193
Eva Storgaard
Gramercy Park Hotel, New York: 2 Lexington Avenue, New
York ....................................................... 198
Nicky Ryan
Paramount, New York, 1990: interior design by Philippe
Starck ..................................................... 203
Mark Pimlott
Hotel II Palazzo: Venetian blind in Fukuoka ................ 209
Filip Geerts and S. Umberto Barbieri
The Zeebrugge Ferry Terminal, ОМА: architecture after the
crisis of the whole ........................................ 217
Lara Schrijver
CUBE Hotel, Tröpolach: an ultimate home base and stage-
scape of the alpine event society .......................... 227
Michael Zinganel
Bibliography .................................................. 233
Index ......................................................... 237
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