As part of the Children’s Aid Society, the Dunlevy Milbank Center is a community center in Central Harlem offering comprehensive support to children and their families. ESKW/A’s mission was to reimagine the boys’ and girls’ locker rooms which were long overdue for updates. Original to the building, the locker rooms were inefficient, outdated, and didn’t represent the needs of the young people using them. Our objective was to provide a more open and efficient layout for the girls’ locker rooms and more privacy for the boys’ locker rooms. We worked with the Children’s Aid Organization’s palette of standard colors to link the space to the organization’s branding. Bringing bright, warm, energy-efficient lighting to the space was a high priority, as well as selecting water-efficient fixtures for ease of maintenance and operations.

Client: Children's Aid Society.
Agency: NYC EDC
Program: educational.
Size: 2,000 SF.
Team: Owner’s Representative: About the Work. Structural Engineering: Old Structures Mechanical Engineering: Rosenthal Engineers. General Contractor: Concept CSI.
Photography: Michael Grimm Photography.