REVEALED: Kanye's West blueprint for destruction of $60M mansion created by mysterious 'God of architecture' - as his dark and twisted designs are finally released READ MORE: Ye slashes $14 million from asking price of gutted Malibu mansio n By Laura Parnaby For Dailymail.Com Published: 19:06 BST, 23 June 2024 | Updated: 19:06 BST, 23 June 2024 e-mail View comments Shocking photographs show how Kanye West bought and destroyed a $53million beachfront mansion designed by a world-famous architect and replaced it with his twisted designs. The rapper purchased the sprawling Malibu home in September 2021 after it was carefully created by revered Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
Ando's designs are known for their pinpoint precision with a focus on glass exteriors which blend domestic life with nature. But within a matter of months Ye - who has hit headlines for dressing his wife Bianca Censori in outlandish and flesh-baring outfits - took a sledgehammer to this vision and transformed it into a post-apocalyptic shell, causing its value to plummet $14 million. 'This is going to be my bomb shelter.
This is going to be my Batcave,' Ye told one of the laborers employed to destroy the home from the inside out, as revealed in an interview with the New Yorker . Ando's Malibu building now consists of several gaping hollows where bedrooms, kitchens and an avant-garde gallery used to offer expensive artwork, ornate marble fittings, opulent wooden cabinets, and stunning views of the ocean The onc.
