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The 78th floor sky lobby on the North Tower (1 World Trade Center) 1 world trade center skylobby 78.webp
The 78th floor sky lobby on the North Tower (1 World Trade Center)
The sky lobby in Central Plaza, Hong Kong Sky City Church Lounge.jpg
The sky lobby in Central Plaza, Hong Kong

A sky lobby is an intermediate interchange floor in a skyscraper where people can change from an express elevator that stops only at the sky lobby to a local elevator that stops at a subset of higher floors.

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Early uses of the sky lobby include the original Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and 875 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. [1]

Nearly 200 people were estimated to have been in the 78th floor sky lobby of the South Tower of the original World Trade Center when it was hit directly by United Airlines Flight 175, leaving only around a dozen who survived the impact and escaped the tower before it collapsed. [2] [3]

One World Trade Center (Manhattan)

One World Trade Center is the tallest skyscraper in New York City. Like the original World Trade Center buildings it replaced, the new building has a sky lobby to reduce the amount of space devoted to elevators. The sky lobby is on the 64th floor; Each set of five to six stories is served by a separate bank of elevators. The elevators to the sky lobby, along with the ones used for the nonstop service to the 100th-floor One World Observatory, are the fastest in the Western Hemisphere. The observatory elevator transports passengers 100 floors in under one minute. [4]

875 North Michigan Avenue (Chicago)

The John Hancock Center's sky lobby on the 44th floor serves only the residential portion of the building that occupies 48 floors (floors 45–92). Three express elevators run from the residential lobby on the ground floor to the 44th floor, with all three of the elevators stopping at one of the parking garage levels. [5] At floor 44, residents transfer to two banks of three elevators. One bank serves 21 floors (floors 45–65) and the other serves 28 floors (floors 65–92). Although all six elevators stop at floor 65, this floor is roughly the same layout as the residential floors immediately above and below it. It is not a sky lobby because residents can also board elevators to higher floors at floor 44. [6]

The tower's 44th floor sky lobby includes a pool, gym, dry cleaner, convenience store, about 700 mailboxes, two "party" rooms, a sitting area overlooking Lake Michigan, a small library, a refuse room (with trash chutes emptying here), offices for the managers of the residential condominium, [7] and a polling station for residents during elections.

Floors above 92 are serviced by direct passenger elevators from the ground floor, and by two freight elevators that serve 55 floors (floors 44 to 98). [8]

Buildings with sky lobbies

The former World Trade Center, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, used sky lobbies, located on the 44th and 78th floors of each tower. World Trade Center Building Design with Floor and Elevator Arrangement m.svg
The former World Trade Center, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, used sky lobbies, located on the 44th and 78th floors of each tower.
View from the sky lobby in the JPMorgan Chase Tower, Houston (the roof of TC Energy Center building is visible through the window) Sky Lobby in JPMorgan Chase Tower, Houston, Texas (15654308084).jpg
View from the sky lobby in the JPMorgan Chase Tower, Houston (the roof of TC Energy Center building is visible through the window)
The Nina Tower sky lobby Nina Tower Sky Lobby.jpg
The Nina Tower sky lobby
Building NameYearLocationFloors of sky lobby(s)
875 North Michigan Avenue 1969 Chicago, Illinois, United States44
30 Hudson Yards 2019 New York City, New York, United States35
1 World Trade Center (1971-2001) 1972 New York City, New York, United States44, 78
2 World Trade Center (1971-2001) 1973 New York City, New York, United States44, 78
Willis Tower 1973 Chicago, Illinois, United States33/34, 66/67
NatWest Tower 1980 London, United Kingdom23/24
JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston) 1982 Houston, Texas, United States60
Wells Fargo Plaza (Houston) 1983 Houston, Texas, United States34/35, 58/59
Williams Tower 1983 Houston, Texas, United States51
Columbia Center 1985 Seattle, Washington, United States40
Miami Tower 1987 Miami, Florida, United States11
Seattle Municipal Tower 1990 Seattle, Washington, United States40
Petronas Twin Towers 1999 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia41/42
Izumi Garden Tower 2002 Tokyo, Japan
First World Hotel 2008 Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia3, 8
Taipei 101 2004 Taipei, Taiwan35/36, 59/60
Shin Kong Life Tower 1993 Taipei, Taiwan16
Revenue Tower 1990 Wan Chai North, Hong Kong38
Immigration Tower 1990 Wan Chai North, Hong Kong38
Central Plaza 1992 Wan Chai North, Hong Kong46
The Center 1998Central, Hong Kong42
Two International Finance Centre 2003Central, Hong Kong33, 35, 55, 56
Bloomberg Tower 2004 New York City, New York, United States6, 20
Nina Tower 2006Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong41
One Island East 2005Quarry Bay, Hong Kong36, 37
The Bow 2007 Calgary, Alberta, Canada18, 36, 58
Shanghai World Financial Center 2008 Shanghai, China28/29, 52/53
Burj Khalifa 2010 Dubai, United Arab Emirates43, 76, 123
200 West Street 2009 New York City, New York, United States11
International Commerce Centre 2010West Kowloon, Hong Kong48/49, 88, 98/99
Jeddah Tower 2020 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia42/43, 75/76, 125/126 [9]
One World Trade Center (2014-) 2014 New York City, New York, United States64
Rosslyn Central Place Office Tower 2016 Arlington, Virginia, United States6
Lakhta Center 2018 Saint Petersburg, Russia29/30, 53/54
Australia 108 2019 Melbourne, Australia83, 84 [10] [11]
Wilshire Grand Tower 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States70
Shanghai Tower 2015 Shanghai, China22/23, 37/38, 52/53, 68/69, 101
Wuhan Greenland Center 2018 Wuhan, China25/26, 49/50, 70, 116/117
Tokyo Sky Tree 2012 Sumida, Tokyo, Japan4F, 350m
Abeno Harukas 2014 Osaka, Japan17/18, 19/20
Wisma 46 1996 Jakarta, Indonesia 46
Merdeka 118 2021 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 40/41, 75/76
UOB Plaza Tower One1995 Singapore, Singapore 37–38
S2 Building EEPIS 2015 Surabaya, Indonesia 1 [12]
Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower 2012 Makkah, Saudi Arabia M2, [13] M4 [14]
Plaza Tunjungan 5 2015Surabaya, Indonesia20
311 South Wacker Drive 1990 Chicago, Illinois, United States46
Djamaa el Djazaïr 2019 Algiers, Algeria 4

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  12. This is not a ground floor, and in other building on EEPIS complex, this floor is known as 2nd floor.
  13. Used as the hotel lobby
  14. Used as the serviced apartments lobby