Editing Sky lobby (section)

{{Short description|Intermediate interchange floor in a skyscraper}}
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[[File:Sky City Church Lounge.jpg|thumb|The sky lobby in [[Central Plaza (Hong Kong)|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. 

Early uses of the sky lobby include the original Twin Towers of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] and [[875 North Michigan Avenue]] in Chicago.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.otis.com/otis150/section/1,2344,ARC3066_CLI1_RES1_SEC5,00.html
|publisher=[[Otis Elevator Company]]
|title= Otis History: The World Trade Center
|access-date=2006-12-07 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061115072321/http://www.otis.com/otis150/section/1,2344,ARC3066_CLI1_RES1_SEC5,00.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2006-11-15}}</ref>

Nearly 200 people were estimated to have been in the 78th floor sky lobby of the [[List of tenants in 2 World Trade Center|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.<ref name="Neal 2002">{{cite web | last=Neal | first=Rome | title=A Sept. 11 Survivor's Tale | website=CBS News | date=2002-09-10 | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-sept-11-survivors-tale/ | access-date=2022-11-27}}</ref><ref name="Corbett 2018">{{cite web | last=Corbett | first=Glenn | title=How the Design of the World Trade Center Claimed Lives on 9/11 | website=HISTORY | date=2018-09-05 | url=https://www.history.com/news/world-trade-center-stairwell-design-9-11 | access-date=2022-11-27}}</ref>