How Kanye West Ruined an Architectural Treasure
January 6, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn 2021, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, paid $57.3 million for a beach house designed by the Japanese master Tadao Ando—then disembowelled its interior. lan Parker investigates how Ye turned the architectural treasure into a ruin. "The house was still here, in a way that another architect's work might not be, given Ye's thoroughness and more than two years of salt and rain," Parker writes. Yet, "it was a scene of violence."
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