Architect Bjarke Ingels ranks alongside 20th-century greats such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and John Lautner, according to USModernist director George Smart.
Smart ranked the Danish architect's Via 57 West project in Manhattan as one of his 10 favourite modernist buildings in North America and said: "Bjarke Ingels is this century's Frank Lloyd Wright and I'm going on record with that statement."
Top: BIG founder Bjarke Ingels. Photo by Thomas Sweertvaegher. Above: Via 57 West by BIG
USModernist is a nonprofit organisation that documents, promotes and preserves modernist architecture in America founded by Smart, who has dedicated his career to lobbying for modernist buildings to be recognised as important pieces of architectural history. He included Ingel's Via 57 West 2006 "courtscraper" block among his ten favourite modernist buildings in North America.
Via 57 West is a residential building in New York
All the other buildings on the list, which Smart put together for Dezeen, were built in the last century.
Via 57 West is a tetrahedral apartment building that is "a combination of a skyscraper and a courtyard building," as Ingels described it in an interview with Dezeen.

"All I want for Christmas is an apartment in this building, which sets the tone for a new era of modernism in New York City," Smart told Dezeen, comparing the Dane to one of the towering greats of twentieth-century American architecture.
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