Tabler Center

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY
2004

Goshow Architects’ renovation and adaptive reuse of a vacant campus property at Stony Brook University transformed the building into a hub of student activity and learning.

The Tabler Center for Arts, Culture & Humanities is a two-story multi-use facility with television and radio studios, digital arts and print media studios, practice rooms, offices, a conference room, and a 250-seat performance space. The lower level also houses a café that seats 200 and includes a movable glass wall which opens to a patio area overlooking the inner landscape of Tabler Quad. Upstairs, an art gallery and circulation space with a new barrel-vaulted skylight roof, provides a forum to display works by students and local artists.

Goshow provided design services, programming, bid preparation assistance and construction administration services for the gut renovation and adaptive reuse of the 27,600 sq. ft. abandoned cafeteria. Our sustainable design for adaptive reuse included use of recycled materials in construction, low energy lighting, water efficient landscaping and zero use of CDC-based refrigerants in the HVAC system.