News about Tadao Ando

The Malibu mansion that Kanye West famously stripped down with the goal of making it a bomb shelter - has sold for approximately $21 million, with the new owner finally revealed. Belwood Investments purchased the property, according to TMZ, after the rapper initially had the home on sale for $53 million.  The outlet reported that the company's CEO Bo Belmont revealed in a press release that they plan to invest $5 million into the home to attempt to restore it the original vision of Tadao Ando - who originally designed the home prior to Kanye's demolition.

Kanye West has finally offloaded his Malibu mansion after slashing the asking price by a whopping $14 million. The Heartless rapper, 47 - who recently joined his scantily-clad wife Bianca Censori and daughter North West at the movie theater - initially purchased the home in 2021 which was designed by Japanese architect, Tadao Ando. However, shocking photos last month showed the beachfront home completely gutted with no windows as it sits near the sandy shore.

Ye took a sledgehammer - literally - to the carefully crafted vision of architect Tadao Ando and transformed the cinematic beauty into a post-apocalyptic shell complete with his own 'Batcave' bunker. Shocking photographs show the once-stunning white mansion which was completed in 2013 looking like something that survived the outer perimeter of a nuclear explosion.

According to DailyMail.com, the walls in Kanye West's Malibu incomplete mansion are too dark for the rappers' liking. He is now selling the house for $53 million, a $4 million loss on what he paid for it in 2021. According to Insider, the artist believes that the imposing concrete walls on the 4,000 square-foot home are too cool for his taste, which include more 'earth tones.' When Ye paid $57 million for the modern Malibu home, designed by prominent Japanese architect Tadao Ando, has already had a striking postmodern look. Since then, West has tore out walls, doors, windows, and plumbing to create a much more brutal look, leaving the 4,000-square foot home as a barren shell.

On Wednesday, Kanye West's Malibu home sold for a staggering $4 million loss, signaling a decline in his once-burgeoning real estate market. Two years after he bought the beachfront home, designed by contemporary minimalist architect Tadao Ando, the rapper, producer, and designer put it up for auction for $53 million. West completely renovated the house but was unable to finish the work.

They fork out $200 million for what appears to be the most expensive home to ever sell in California and one of the most expensive in the United States. However, social media followers weren't entirely positive about Beyoncé and Jay-Z when they took a look at the mostly concrete Malibu mansion. Despite the home's stunning view and sits near a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, viewers find the home's boxy style and lack of varied materials to be'sterile' and 'ugly.'

The singer, 41, began her UK leg of her much-anticipated Renaissance world tour, which has also seen her perform in Cardiff and Edinburgh. And Beyonce was seen getting out of her private jet just hours before she is scheduled to perform in Sunderland for her latest high-energy performance.

Beyonce showcased her toned abs in a sultry black look for a romantic date night with Jay-Z in London on Monday night, performing her fashion A game like never. With a series of trendy snaps, the 41-year-old megastar, who will keep her $88 million Bel-Air mansion in lieu of her new $200 million seaside fortress, maintained her chic sex appeal to her 309 million Instagram followers. Beyonce posed like a blazer, matching high-waisted shorts, and a black bralette to perfection in her slideshow, showcasing a striped black blazer, matching high-waisted shorts, and a black bralette to perfection.

Despite recently throwing down $200 million for California's most expensive home in Malibu, billionaire power couple Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter) have apparently decided to maintain the $88 million two-acre Bel-Air estate in Bel-Air purchased in 2017. According to TMZ, the Houston-born 41-year-old and the Brooklyn-born 53-year-old maintain their Bel-Air home as it's closer to family and their three children's schools, and Malibu will continue as their 'home' until they move full time.

Kanye West's $57 million dollar mansion in Malibu has been 'left to rot' from the inside out less than two years after the rapper bought the house and employed an award-winning architect to renovate it. In September 2021, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, purchased the 4,000 square foot oceanfront home, which features massive windows overlooking the sea. He enlisted architect Tadao Ando and brought in top contractors to oversee the extensive renovations. But by the next year, renovations had been suspended and the gutted, windowless mansion was still empty. Ye was thrown out by a number of corporate partners and advertisers as a result of his anti-Semitic outbursts. 'He left his mansion rotting,' and that they hadn't seen a single'seen' around for many months,' according to Ye's Malibu neighbors.'

According to Kim Kardashian's most recent Instagram post, she has been working on a 'dream project' in collaboration with Japanese architect Tadao Ando. 'I met with Tadao Ando, the master of the Philippines, to review and discuss a dream project that we've been working on for the past two years,' captioned the reality TV star, 42. Tadao, 81, is Japan's most popular architect and is praised internationally for his'minimalist concrete buildings.'

It's been said that the more you earn, the more you spend, and that certainly is the case with Hollywood's top actors. And although celebrities have fortunes and massive luxury homes that most people can only dream about, many homeowners are also plagued with hefty mortgages that most homeowners would not even comprehend. According to public records, the A-list singers and film stars who need to keep up the hefty monthly payments for their lavish homes. According to one celebrity wealth specialist, it's often cheaper for the super wealthy to obtain a mortgage on a mega house rather than paying for it outright. Beyoncé, 41, and Jay-Z, 52, who took out a staggering $53 million mortgage after purchasing their Bel Air mansion for $88 million in 2017.