Air
Air is a multi-sensory art experience from acclaimed artist Kenzo Digital that lives in the New York City skyline at Summit One Vanderbilt by Kohn Pedersen Fox. This observation space with views that span from Coney Island to the Bronx Zoo, creates a multisensory, transformative space that is groundbreaking, euphoric, and will forever change the way we view the New York City skyline.
A walkthrough art experience, Air begins underground in One Vanderbilt’s Grand Central Terminal entrance and extends through a mirrored, light-infused elevator ride up a thousand feet to the 91st floor. Once atop the building, Air offers visitors a multi-floor, multi-space immersion that challenges their notions of physical reality, the city that surrounds them, and their sense of self.
Air is a story of both literal and figurative reflection. Through the use of glass mirrors on every structural surface, Air appears boundless, without fixed form, and offers a tantalizing and singular experience for each visitor at each moment. With everything mirrored, each step rearranges what visitors see with incredible complexity and scale, as if in defiance of physics. Air defamiliarizes the world, and the process of finding a new equilibrium opens up a sense of elemental curiosity. It is an immersion in nature in the heart of Manhattan, likened to a Central Park in the sky. With its unique vantage point, Air brings the outside environment into the space and then magnifies it infinitely.
Experiencing Air is deeply personal and yet shared, bringing consciousnesses together through collective wonder.
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