The Soane Honors

Announcing the 2025 Soane Honors on October 21st!

Join us for our annual gala celebrating extraordinary individuals whose work captures the spirit and legacy of Sir John Soane. This year, we are proud to honor two remarkable visionaries: Peter Pennoyer, Founding Principal, Peter Pennoyer Architects, and internationally renowned artist Thomas Struth.

Mark your calendars for a festive Black Tie evening on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at the University Club of New York, where we’ll toast these luminaries for their outstanding contributions to the worlds of art, architecture, and design.

The Soane Honors celebrate those who, like Soane himself, dare to challenge convention, spark the imagination, and shape our cultural landscape with brilliance and grace.

It’s sure to be an unforgettable night of inspiration, celebration, and creative spirit. We hope to see you there!

Peter Pennoyer, founding principal of Peter Pennoyer Architects, is a distinguished architect and author who oversees his eponymously named, AD100-listed firm based in New York with studios in Miami and Palm Beach.  The firm’s recent works include a new art deco inspired apartment building on Madison Avenue, the renovation of Guild Hall in East Hampton and a townhouse for Jeff Koons.

Peter has co-authored five books on American architects and contributed essays to several other books. He has taught at New York University and is the recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize and the Arthur Ross Award among other honors.

Peter serves as a trustee of The Morgan Library and President of the Whiting Foundation. He lives in New York with his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder.

Thomas Struth is a Berlin-based artist celebrated for his diverse body of work. He continues to advance his vocabulary with each new body of work, while maintaining the same principles core to his practice. Reconciling forms of documentation and contemplation, Thomas Struth has been capturing our time since the late 1970s.

Comprehensive solo exhibitions of Struth’s work have been presented at institutions including High Museum of Art in Atlanta, National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, Museo del Prado in Madrid, Museum Folkwang in Essen, Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Haus der Kunst in Munich. In addition to many important private art collections, his works are also part of various public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthaus Zürich; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London, Galleria d’Accademia, Florence; the Art Institute of Chicago; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Reina Sofia, Madrid, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Last year, Thomas Struth received the Helena Vaz da Silva European Award for Raising Public Awareness on Cultural Heritage. In 2018, Struth received the Honorary Magister Artium Gandensis from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium. In 2016 he was elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the Centenary Medal and Honorary Membership from The Royal Photographic Society, London. In 2014 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Between 1993-1996 Struth was the first Professor for Photography at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. He is the winner of the Spectrum-International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (1997) and the Werner Mantz Prize for Photography, The Netherlands (1992).

Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation is based in New York City and has supported Sir John Soane’s legacy and remarkable house museum in London for over thirty years. The Foundation offers a rich and growing array of lectures, travel opportunities, and fellowships for young scholars to study the Museum and its collections.

We are most grateful for your support and look forward to raising a glass together on October 21. 

Enjoy highlights from The 2024 Soane Honors by clicking the video below.