Less than a month after the release of his long-awaited album, “Donda,” Kanye West paid $57 million for a Tadao Ando-designed Malibu beach house, which first listed in May 2020. — The Real Deal
West purchased the 4,000-square-foot concrete home in an off-market deal with retired Wall Street financier Richard Sachs. It was initially listed at $75 million in May 2020 before being removed from the market.
The former owner commissioned the home, and it was completed in 2013. It has four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, and is directly on the beach. According to Dirt, the structure reportedly required 1,200 tons of poured concrete, 200 tons of steel reinforcement, and 12 pylons driven 60 feet into the ground to support the heavy home from sinking into the sand.
Tadao Ando is reportedly one of West’s favorite architects, who described a visit to the art island of Naoshima, Japan, where Ando contributed several building designs, as “life-changing.”
Marmol Radziner was the executive architect and general contractor on this project.
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I would have like to see the site less maximized. Not only this Ando designed one but most of the owners after the '80s have maxed the lots.
Only a few houses down, a couple of identical and lighter Craig Elwood designs been there for decades and made friends with the ocean and sand. That is the earlier and surfing Malibu Beach.
Now, it's a trophy pad kind of a place. That stretch of the beachfront has a lot of absentee owners and their once in a while homes. I doubt Kanye West (even with his on your face image) would spend that much time there either.
57 mil..? is maybe a real estate baloney. Such a bunker house. Those shades pretty much are permanent fixtures maybe except on the photo shoot day. But this is about being a starchitect, whatever they do gets gobbled up.
$57.3 million*
*sand wolf not included
The best thing about living on the water is you only have assholes on three sides.
You sure about that? https://www.google.com/search?...
I have mad respect for celebrities that keep their personal affairs (like their addresses) to themselves. Only a narcissist wants people to see their stuff.
I grew up in SoCal in the late 50s and thru the 60s, until I was drafted and sent to 'Nam in '68. What can I say. Things were simpler back then. Yes, Malibu was a "known" place where many Hollywood personalities lived. But, it was "Malibu," a place where surfers and people who loved the ocean and the beach could go for the day and then cruise back home. The life was quintessential SoCal. I lived and loved it. What was California's population back then, 10 million? It was laid back, sunny, and very atypical for what came to be known as "Southern California." Dare I say, "It is no more?" I'm not a Kanye West fan, nor a fan of his type. But, it is what it is. Bottom Line, these people are "made" as much by our easy on the trich tax system as by their talent. This house reflects too much for the few and not enough for the many. By the way, I became and architect spending my career in Las Vegas. Enough said.
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