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Architecture review: Bjarke Ingels’ HFZ building

James Gardner

Aerial view of 76 Eleventh Avenue
Aerial view of 76 Eleventh Avenue

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From the December issue: Bjarke Ingels, the principal architect of BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), must get tired of people marveling about his relative youth. Even today at 42, an age when most of his peers still labor in total obscurity, the Danish designer shines out as a star, with more commissions in the works than most established architects see in their entire careers. Plans for his first project in New York, VIA 57 West — a daring pyramid-shaped residential tower along the West Side Highway — made him an overnight sensation back in 2012. [more]

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