Projects

The Browning School

The Browning School

Founded in 1888, the Browning School is an all-boys K-12 independent school with a long history of academic excellence. To support a growth in its enrollment, enhance its upper school campus, and create a home for its athletic programs, Browning acquired a facility a few blocks from its original 1922 Red Door building and developed plans to repurpose the space into educational use.

The program calls for 18 high school classrooms and labs, a regulation-sized gymnasium, library, and cafeteria, as well as arts and community spaces. When completed, the new facility will house Browning’s Upper School, and the spaces at the original 62nd Street building will be repurposed for younger students. The project involves the navigation of a series of complex public approvals, including securing permits from the New York City Board of Standards & Appeals (BSA).

Churchill School & Center

Churchill School & Center

The Churchill School and Center is an innovative and transformational K-12 learning community that empowers students with language-based learning disabilities. Since its founding in 1972, Churchill has embraced an individualized and holistic approach to education that nurtures students’ intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development.

Churchill recently embarked on a planning process that seeks to ‘reverse engineer’ the environment by starting with the student rather than compromising best practices due to facility limitations. This long-term planning effort is founded on the development of a Program Plan that articulates and aligns internal consensus regarding priorities for academics, art, performance, athletics and technology, as well as psychographic and demographic surveys that affirm key elements of enrollment. The corresponding Feasibility Study included a facilities condition assessment and consideration of real estate assets.

Jackie Robinson Museum

Jackie Robinson Museum

The Jackie Robinson Museum expands the Foundation’s mission to educate current and future generations of Americans on the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson. Invoking Robinson’s role as a champion for racial, social, and economic equality, the museum serves as a catalyst for dialogue on today’s issues and tells the important story of the civil rights movement.

Located within a landmarked building in Lower Manhattan, the space features a combination of interactive, media-based exhibitions and galleries to illuminate the life and character of one of the most storied athletes of all time. The museum’s collection includes over 4,500 artifacts and 40,000 historical images accessible through a variety of interactive kiosks and digital displays. The JRM Education Center provides opportunities for on-site instruction, discussions, and special events.

USGA Pinehurst

USGA Pinehurst

Zubatkin’s longtime client, the United States Golf Association (USGA), is advancing plans to develop a second campus in Pinehurst, North Carolina. The project will establish a combined visitor center and museum with specialty interactive exhibits, offices for USGA staff, a turf grass laboratory and an advanced golf equipment testing center – the only one of its kind in America. The USGA’s primary headquarters and the USGA Golf Museum and Library will continue to operate in New Jersey.

The design for Golf House Pinehurst looks to honor the rich history of the 19th and early 20th century building styles that are representative of the architectural character of the region. The campus will include three buildings with views of the historic Pinehurst Country Club. The project also aims to integrate the physical environment with the surrounding site as part of the overall visitor experience. An outdoor learning landscape with native plants and pollinator habitats will contribute to expanding awareness of the USGA’s sustainability initiatives.

Center of Theological Inquiry

Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton, New Jersey is an independent nonprofit that brings together leading thinkers from around the globe to collaborate on interdisciplinary research initiatives. By convening theologians and scholars in the humanities and sciences, the institution is well positioned to connect research conversations with practitioners and policymakers.

As the result of a Strategic Planning process that aims to strengthen connections with the public and community, CTI embarked on a renovation of Luce Hall located in the Mercer Hill historic district. The project will transform the facility into a state-of-the-art building, increasing collaborative work spaces for visiting scholars, creating more assembly areas for its events, and providing suitable spaces and technology for digital programming and global outreach. The project requires the careful navigation of local Princeton approvals and community relations efforts

Central Queens Academy

Central Queens Academy

Central Queens Academy (“CQA”) is a tuition-free, public middle school. Established in 2012, CQA serves close to 400 scholars of diverse backgrounds from kindergarten through eight grade. The institution’s mission is to prepare each and every student for a college education.

With the goal of creating unified facilities to grow their program, CQA has searched for and reviewed a number of opportunities to work with development partners on the construction of purpose-built facilities for the school in Queens. CQA advanced the programming and design efforts to the Concept Design level and then worked with development partners, who was in turn responsible for completing the design and building out the space according to the institution’s requirements.

Spence 412 Athletic & Ecology Center

Spence 412 Athletic & Ecology Center

With the goal of providing additional and enhanced spaces for its Athletics, Ecology and Arts programs within proximity of its core campus, Spence acquired a site and developed a plan to build a new, six-story athletic and ecology center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The program called for a regulation sized gymnasium, training room, 9 squash courts, lockers rooms, teaching kitchen, student cafe, multi-purpose arts room, ecology classroom and greenhouse. The project involved the navigation of a series of complex public approvals and logistical challenges, as well as coordination with the community and ongoing communications with neighboring property owners.

Superblue Miami

Superblue Miami

Superblue is a new, innovative arts venture that aims to bring groundbreaking experiential arts installations to broader audiences. Superblue’s Experiential Art Centers (EACs) will exhibit foundational artists like James Turrell, best known for his work with light and space; teamLab, a Japanese Art Collective that works in complex technological media; and Es Devlin, an artist known for large-scale performative sculptures and environments.

Zubatkin collaborated with Superblue on its first location in Miami, where a former food distribution warehouse was leased from the neighboring Rubell Museum and transformed into a flexible exhibition space design to accept large scale, immersive art installations. The project required the navigation of local approvals with the City of Miami, including the Fire Department and Department of Public Works, and involved a close collaboration with the Mayor’s Office to meet critical opening deadlines.

Westport Weston Family YMCA

Westport Weston Family YMCA

Since the Westport Weston Family YMCA’s successful opening of the Bedford Family Center, the Family YMCA engaged Zubatkin to lead a strategic master plan to further develop its campus identity, improve circulation and access, and centralize program offerings. Priorities centered on improvements to the YMCA’s campus, including its summer camp, gymnastics and wellness programs.

The campus master plan was realized through the implementation of several major projects:

  • A 22,000 SF addition to the Bedford Family Center providing spaces for gymnastics, classrooms, and expanded wellness areas. The expansion also allowed the YMCA to grow offerings for high-demand programs, such as group exercise classes, indoor cycling, youth programs, dance, and support after-school activities.
  • Improvements to the campus included a new outdoor lap and teaching pool, pool house, splash pad, activity pavilions, giant slides, archery range, climbing wall, and multi-sports field. The scope also included the renovation of Becks Lodge into a youth/teen center, renovation of the outdoor amphitheater, and upgrades to the playground. Extensive sitework and landscape improvements enhanced circulation and accessibility throughout the campus including a fitness trail loop and recreational water access.

The projects were carefully phased to allow the YMCA to maintain ongoing operations during construction and were successfully delivered on schedule and within budget through the COVID-19 pandemic.

UJA-Federation of New York

UJA-Federation of New York

UJA-Federation of New York is the central philanthropic and planning organization for New York’s Jewish community, supporting hundreds of organizations both locally and around the world.  As one of its centennial initiatives in 2017, the organization launched Upward New York, a comprehensive antipoverty program designed to help individuals and families move from crisis to stability.

The Queens Hub is a multi-service center that supports one of the City’s most vulnerable communities. Delivered in partnership with Commonpoint Queens, the building houses several UJA nonprofit partners and offers a central point to access a variety of essential financial, legal, employment, mental health, counseling, and food distribution resources. The construction involved a full interior and exterior renovation to convert a former bowling alley into a state-of-the-art facility that features classrooms, computer labs, a teaching kitchen, a pantry, and counseling and administration spaces.

Princeton Theological Seminary

Princeton Theological Seminary

A professional and graduate school that supports an approximately 360-student community of worship and learning, Princeton Theological Seminary owns and operates multiple campuses in Princeton, West Windsor, and Lawrenceville. Their 70+ buildings support a full spectrum of programs, including academic, residential, religious, administrative, athletic, library, and dining spaces.

To further its mission and provide modern, safe, functional, and attractive facilities, the Seminary embarked on a comprehensive Facilities Conditions Assessment (FCA) to review all existing buildings and supporting infrastructure across its various properties. The final report presented a prioritized, building-by-building assessment of physical conditions, as well as estimated costs for the deferred maintenance and capital improvements identified. As an important real estate and capital planning tool, the FCA represented a critical step in supporting broader strategic initiatives and preparing for upcoming campus master planning work.

Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School

To further its mission and advance the goals outlined in its Strategic Plan, the Horace Mann School embarked on the planning and implementation of a variety of academic, health and wellness projects within the existing Middle and Upper Division Campus.

The new Lutnick Hall focuses on providing new, state-of-the-art science research and laboratory spaces, as well as offers new valuable public space for students to gather, collaborate and learn. The program includes a Campus Center, Center for Community Values & Action, student café, “drop and plop” spaces to encourage chance encounters and exchanges, meeting rooms for quiet study, and a great room to accommodate larger meetings. The masonry building also creates a new front door to the North Campus that seamlessly blends with the campus architecture and landscape – improving circulation and functionality, while also addressing broader accessibility goals.

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