The Brutalists
Ye's Malibu beach house, originally by Tadao Ando Aaron Betsky's Architect magazine review of the David Geffen Galleries includes this burn: "I somehow kept thinking of the ruin Ye left behind when he tried to renovate the Tadao Ando-designed designed beach house in Malibu." There are some similarities. Both buildings are starchitect-designed exercises in brutalism with interesting back stories. Here's a quick compare-and-contrast. Iwan Baan photo of David Geffen Galleries Architect Geffen: Peter Zumthor (2009 Pritzker Prize) Beach House: Tadao Ando (1995 Pritzker), as reimagined by Ye (24 Grammys) Concrete Geffen: "Chances are you've never seen so much concrete in one place"—Christopher Knight Beach House: Ye "wants to have no doors, no windows, no fixtures, just concrete"—property manager Tony Saxon Still from video by real estate influencer Arvin Haddad . Ye (then known as Kanye West) bought the home for $57.3 million in 2021 and sold...
