Tourist attraction
SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
45 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017, USA
Mirrored sky chambers and glass observation pods atop Manhattan's fourth-tallest tower.
This guide to SUMMIT One Vanderbilt follows artist Kenzo Digital, who spent twenty-five years imagining a mirrored penthouse above New York before finding the exact site in the raw upper floors of One Vanderbilt in 2019. It traces the pandemic-era construction, when he worked alone in protective gear testing prototypes in empty skyscrapers, and the twenty-five thousand square feet of mirrors that shift with the passing clouds. Listen for the low drone woven into the soundscape as you move through the mirrored chambers.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.