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Awarding the most creative, disruptive, and influential individuals in the world today, Bjarke Ingels receives the Wall Street Journal’s first annual Innovator of the Year Award for Architecture for BIG’s wildly expressive structures, including the radical re-imagining of the New York high-rise apartment building, the commitment to sustainability and the philosophy of pragmatic utopianism. [More info after the break]

The prize was presented to Bjarke Ingels by author, architect and Founder of TED Conferences Richard Saul Wurman. Other winners include Ai Weiwei (Art); Katie Grand (Fashion); Elon Musk (Technology); Steve Ells (Food); Joris Laarman (Design); and The Giving Pledge, founded by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates (Philanthropy). The ceremony took place at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC , Thursday, October 27th following the official opening of BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group’s New York office, Friday, the 21st of October in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark.

BIG New York is situated in the Chelsea district of New York City and established in order to oversee the development and upcoming construction of West 57th on Manhattan and better service the growing work in North-, South- and Latin-America. BIG is currently involved in a number of projects in San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver and Toronto.

Earlier in October, Bjarke Ingels was selected as the winner of TRH Crown Prince Couple annual Culture Prize 2011, honoring the first architect since the foundation of the Award in 2004 and granted the 2011 Prize of Honor by Danish Dreyer Foundation.

Image courtesy: Bill Farrell Agency.

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