![]() Summit also includes two additional gallery spaces that serve as transitions and palate cleaners between Air, Levitation and Ascent. I predict that this area will be popular for sunset cocktails, proposals and other kinds of special occasion photo-snapping. It's a great place to stop for a break after your tour, and to continue to take in the views. I especially liked the design of the small, Midcentury-style fireplace, which hangs from the ceiling and has no supports on the floor – paying homage to the “floating” theme throughout Summit. (The Ascent portion is an add-on experience and requires an additional ticket.) There’s an outdoor bar and indoor cafe near Ascent, with swooping modern design and a menu by Danny Meyer that includes snacks, small plates and cocktails. To reach the elevator, you’ll walk through an open-air garden, which feels a bit like the observation deck at the Empire State Building but with an updated sensibility. In fact, the entire experience built to create a feeling of weightlessness and can be a bit disorienting, so those with vertigo or motion sickness might want to take it slowly or start the day with some Dramamine.Īfter the cantilevered boxes, you'll have the opportunity to join the portion of the tour called Ascent – a glass elevator that carries visitors even higher to the tallest portions of the 1401-foot building. You can even jump inside the box – impressing your Instagram followers seems key here – but I wasn't brave enough to try it. ![]() The glass floor lets you gaze down more than 1000 feet to the street below. From there, you'll move on to Levitation, a series of much smaller transparent glass boxes that are cantilevered over the edge of the One Vanderbilt skyscraper. The two-story glass-and-mirror room, called Air, is its first phase. Most of the Summit One Vanderbilt experience – and it is a complete experience – was designed by Kenzo Digital, an artist who's created immersive performance and video installations for Beyoncé and Kanye West. A room full of bobbing silver balloons rounds out the immersive Summit experience © Laura Motta / Lonely Planet A tour through Summit One Vanderbilt: The phases Even heralded Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who was creating mirrored “infinity” rooms full of colored baubles forty years ago, has found newfound fame in the Instagram era, where her work feels ready-made for sharing (and bragging about) online. This observatory takes its cues from attractions that feel almost fully built for social media, including things like Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, which paints the artist's signature scenes across gigantic video screens that surround its visitors. But it will also show you infinite reflections of yourself and your fellow visitors and create the sensation that you're floating along the reflective floor.įor some, this idea of an immersive, visually gobsmacking tourist attraction won’t be new. (The space can get so bright that we were handed sunglasses on the way in, and visitors are encouraged to bring their own.) A stroll around it reveals Google Maps-worthy views over the shining Chrysler Building, Central Park, the Hudson River and Bryant Park. ![]() Here, you might find yourself looking inward at the observatory itself as much as looking out.Ĭonstructed over two stories, the observatory looks and feels like you’re standing in a massive mirrored box. ![]() Summit One Vanderbilt, which opens to the public on October 21, lets visitors do more than just gaze across the spires of the city's tallest buildings. The newest view of them all, however, is looking to offer something different. ![]()
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