Gene Kaufman...kough...kough, hack....hack...

**zarzapan** · July 1st, 2007, 11:12 AM

I was walking by yesterday and just stopped in my tracks to say... ACK.

**BrooklynRider** · July 1st, 2007, 07:50 PM

Walk into Chelsea and it's "Ack, Ack, Ack, Ack, Ack, Ack, Ack, Ack, Ack..."

**Ninjahedge** · July 2nd, 2007, 09:27 AM

It is like an inverted elementary school bathroom from the 1960's.....

**Scraperfannyc** · July 2nd, 2007, 10:46 AM

If I lived here, I would never admit it.

**pianoman11686** · July 2nd, 2007, 12:50 PM

Are those Skittles?

Talk about "taste the rainbow." Yeesh.

**Punzie** · July 2nd, 2007, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by sfenn1117

If you google Gene Kaufman this is the third page to come up. Hopefully he likes to check in on himself!

If ya'll type his full name every time you criticize him, like in every sentence...

**NoyokA** · July 2nd, 2007, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by zarzapan

I was walking by yesterday and just stopped in my tracks to say... ACK.

Even the very worst architect from the 1960's era wouldn't design anything so ugly.

**Ninjahedge** · July 2nd, 2007, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Stern

Even the very worst architect from the 1960's era wouldn't design anything so ugly... and put their name on it.

Edit...

**Fabrizio** · July 2nd, 2007, 06:09 PM

It looks like an insane asylum that they tried to add a little cheerfulness to.

**antinimby** · July 2nd, 2007, 08:11 PM

A highrise day care center?

**Punzie** · July 3rd, 2007, 12:13 AM

Any possibility that Gene Kaufman is color-blind? Oops... sorry... "prismatically challenged."

**antinimby** · July 3rd, 2007, 02:51 AM

Maybe but how do you explain Sam Chang signing off on them? Is he prismatically challenged as well?

Here's another one from the deadly-duo that is going up as we speak:

**Fabrizio** · July 3rd, 2007, 03:39 AM

It looks like he's re-done his web site. A lot of the really hideous projects like the one posted below are now gone. I wonder if he's trying to distance himself from Chang?

^ We'll all miss this howler of a description:

"The design provides separate visual identities to two differently flagged buildings that nonetheless form a pair with a major urban presence. Metaphorical development of the images of the king and queen chess pieces, with attendant implications of privacy, duality, and gender roles, informed the design concept"

--

Some architectural disasters still remain though.

Unfortunately the texts are no longer poetic, but he has coined a new term: the "Gotel":

http://www.gkapc.com/Commercial-108-24thstreet.html

**Punzie** · July 3rd, 2007, 03:51 AM

^^So that's what happened to the lego tower I built in kindergarten!

**BrooklynRider** · July 3rd, 2007, 08:59 AM

Gene Kaufman is, without peer, the worst working architect in New York City. Gene Kaufman's putrid designs will pollute the city landfscape for decades to come and will become textbook examples of the absolute worst in urban design. If this city had an architectural review board, Gene Kaufman buildings would be rejected outright.