Kanye “Ye” West, whose enterprise empire suffered main repercussions amid the star’s ongoing antisemitic outbursts, is promoting a Malibu property that he purchased in late 2021 for $57.3 million in an off-market deal.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Tadao Ando, the home contains a concrete exterior in conserving with the acclaimed architect’s streamlined brutalist ethos. In the couple of dozen months that Ye has owned the property, the music performer and designer eliminated the house’s interiors, leaving it basically gutted.
Now, as a substitute of renovating the four-bedroom beachfront home on Malibu Road, Ye has determined to promote it, with a price ticket of $53 million (he’s itemizing it at a loss).
“What’s missing are the interiors,” says Jason Oppenheim of the Oppenheim Group, who’s itemizing the home completely, estimating that the brand new proprietor would want to spend a number of million {dollars} to redo the within of the house. “It’s priced to reflect the need for the interior finishes to be replaced. On the positive, it can be brought up to 2024 standards — it was built about 10 years ago.”
What’s vital although, provides Oppenheim, is that the concrete exterior stays intact. “The architectural integrity of Tadao Ando’s work exists today,” says the Selling Sunset star actual property dealer. “He’s largely known for his concrete work and the significant cost of this house is in the concrete work.”
The about 4,000-square-foot home is made out of roughly 1,200 tons of concrete with 200 tons of metal reinforcement and 12 giant pylons which might be set 60 toes into the sand. It options 1,500 sq. toes of exterior decks and boasts ocean views from each room.
Ando — famed for his museum buildings constructed on the Japanese island of Naoshima — has designed valuable few homes in the United States. One, constructed by artwork collectors and producers Bill and Maria Bell, was famously bought by Jay-Z and Beyoncé this yr for $200 million, setting a file as the costliest residential actual property deal ever recorded in California.
Scroll on for additional photos of the home, all of which have been taken earlier than Ye eradicated the interiors:
The streetfront facade of the Tadao Ando home in Malibu.
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Views of the sand and sky from the Tadao Ando home in Malibu.
Roger Davies/The Oppenheim Group
Tadao Ando home in Malibu.
Roger Davies/The Oppenheim Group
The Tadao Ando home in Malibu.
Roger Davies/The Oppenheim Group
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