May 13, 2008
by: Jessica Sheridan Assoc. AIA LEED AP
04.30.08: The AIANY 2008 Design Awards Luncheon took place at Cipriani on Wall Street in honor of this year’s Design Awards and Building Type Awards, co-sponsored with the Boston Society of Architect. A reception followed the next evening at the Center for Architecture, celebrating the Design Awards & Building Type Awards 2008 exhibition opening.

Keynote speaker Peter Eisenman, FAIA.

Sam Lahoz

2006 AIANY President Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP, and 2008 AIANY President James McCullar, FAIA, toast the Spring issue of OCULUS at the exhibition opening.

Kristen Richards

(l-r): Rick Bell, FAIA, AIANY Executive Director; Ronnette Riley, FAIA; and Abby Suckle, FAIA, LEED AP, AIANY Secretary.

Kristen Richards

(l-r): Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, chair of the AIANY Planning & Urban Design committee; Andy Frankl, president of Ibex Construction; and Rick Bell, FAIA.

Kristen Richards


05.05.08: On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners held a panel discussion among senior firm members about the firm’s past, present, and future, and the AIANY Chapter presented it with a special proclamation, at the firm-designed Rubin Museum of Art.

(l-r): Frederick A. Bland, FAIA, AICP, Managing Partner; Founding Partners John H. Beyer, FAIA, AICP, and John Belle, FAIA, RIBA; New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik (who moderated the discussion); James McCullar, FAIA, 2008 AIANY President; Rick Bell, FAIA, AIANY Executive Director (with proclamation).

Kristen Richards


05.07.08: Openhousenewyork (OHNY) held its annual benefit cocktail party and silent art auction at The Explorer’s Club to help raise funds to ensure that the OHNY weekend in October remains a free event.

(l-r): Robert Hammond, co-founder of Friends of the High Line; Scott Laurer, OHNY founder; William Menking, editor-in-chief of The Architect’s Newspaper.

Odette Veneziano

Caroline Otto, OHNY board president (center) with Everardo Jefferson, AIA (left), and Sara Caples, AIA (right), principals of Caples Jefferson Architects.

Odette Veneziano


The NY Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS-NY) held its 12th Annual Honor Awards to recognize excellence in marketing and the public, development, and media sectors. The winners (l-r): Media Honor Award honoree Lockhart Steele, president of Curbed.com; Marketing Champion Award honoree Maxinne Rhea Leighton, Assoc. AIA, principal of business development/director of marketing, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners; Marketing Mentor Award honoree Kirsten Sibilia, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, principal and director of marketing and communication, FXFOWLE Architects (and OCULUS Committee chair); Marketing Achievement Award honoree Judy Pullar, former vice president / director of business development, Cannon Design; and Public Sector Award honoree David Burney, FAIA, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Design and Construction.

Elliot Kaufman Photography

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