CK 40 High Line
Calvin Klein Inc.
New York 2008
Project Architect
Douglas Tuck
To mark its fortieth anniversary in 2008, Calvin Klein commissioned John Pawson to create a temporary building, adjacent to the High Line. Conceived as a volume with a powerful sense of place - likened by one journalist to an immaculately refined school quad - the structure was also designed to act as a bridge between locations and levels, leading guests upward from the street and onto a section of the High Line. Alongside the new perspectives on the city opened up by this composite viewing platform, a site-specific installation by James Turrell offered what the artist described as a window onto ‘the luminous emptiness of a fluid void’.