A $57.3 million Malibu house designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando became one of Ye’s most talked-about real estate purchases. But the extraordinary part came afterward. The oceanfront home was stripped down dramatically, leaving a celebrated architectural property exposed to the Pacific. After Ye sold it for $21 million, a new owner began an $8.5 million effort to restore the house, and the property has now found another buyer while the work is still underway. The report is sourced from Archinect, The New Yorker and Architectural Digest.
How did the $57.3 million Malibu house end up needing a major restoration?
When Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, purchased the Malibu property in 2021, he was buying a roughly 4,000-square-foot concrete house designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando.
The house had originally been commissioned by retired Wall Street financier Richard Sachs and was completed in 2013. It contained four bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms and sat directly on the beach.
The structure itself was an extraordinary piece of engineering. According to the reports, it 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 structure above the sand.
