The New York chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS-NY) will recognize excellence in marketing, public, development, and media sectors with its 12th Annual Honor Awards on Tuesday, 04.29.08. Those being honored at the event are: David Burney, FAIA, commissioner, NYC Department of Design and Construction, who will receive the Public Sector Award; Larry Silverstein, president and CEO of Silverstein Properties, the Developer Award; Lockhart Steele, president and founder of Curbed.com, the Media Honor Award; Maxinne Rhea Leighton, Assoc. AIA, principal of business development and director of marketing at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, the Marketing Champion Award; Judy Pullar, vice president and director of business development of Cannon Design, the Marketing Achievement Award; and Kirsten Sibilia, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, director of marketing and communication at FXFOWLE Architects (and OCULUS Committee chair), the Marketing Mentor Award…

The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced six recipients of its 2008 awards in architecture: Richard Meier, FAIA, won the Gold Medal for Architecture given “for an entire body of work”; Peter Zumthor, Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, given “to an architect of any nationality who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art”; Neil Denari, AIA, and Jim Jennings, Academy Awards in Architecture that recognize American architects whose works are characterized by a strong personal direction; James Carpenter and Kenneth Frampton, Academy Awards in Architecture that acknowledge American designers who explore ideas in architecture through any medium of expression…

Daniel Jacoby, AIA, LEED AP, has joined the FXFOWLE Architects as Design Director in the Interiors Studio…