Hyatt

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There are a lot of hotels right by the Rosemont Convention Center. The Hyatt is connected by gerbil tube, which is very nice when the weather is cold and nasty (as it may very well be in mid-April in Chicago).

The main part of the Hyatt is a hollow cube, with rooms on the outside walls. The corridors are open to the inside of the cube, and their low walls are topped with planters full of philodendron. The top face of the cube is mostly skylights.

In each corner of the cube, there are short hallways with windows on both sides leading out to cylinders of pie-shaped rooms.





The elevators go up in the center of the cube



with bridges going out to the corridors.





On sunny days there is a huge amount of daylight, all the way down to the lobby floor.

It's very nice to walk in the corridors and feel so much space around you. A very different sensation from the closed-in feel of most hotel corridors..........





The rooms on the outsides of the cube have balconies.





The restaurant is in the lobby, under the skylights (10 stories up). You can see that they have built shelters over some of the seating. I did not find it bothersome to be in the open, under the skylights. (For one reason, the tables are tall, and the benches are low. The chairs let me sit closer to the height I prefer for eating, so.................)






You can see one of the "trees" in the restaurant. I wonder, now, if they planned them as a way to help people not feel uncomfortably exposed, with all that space above. It never occurred to me to feel exposed, when I was there.........

Here we are looking pretty much straight up at two of the balls suspended from one of the trees. My friend is wearing the light blue jacket.



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