Kanye West buys house in Malibu by Tadao Ando and other news – SURFACE

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Kanye West buys a $ 57.3 million concrete house in Malibu designed by Tadao Ando.

Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed very few homes in the United States, but Kanye west is now a proud owner of one. Located in Malibu, the 4,000 square foot ocean view property exudes the Pritzker Prize winner’s minimalist style with an abundance of concrete and clean lines. The specifications: three uniquely designed floors with as many guest rooms with private bathrooms and a middle floor for joint meetings. The price to pay ? $ 57.3 million.

In the suburbs of Chicago, a Frank Lloyd Wright house by is planned for restoration.

The Frederick Bagley House in Hinsdale, Chicago, has breakaway demolition under its new preservation-conscious owners. Listed at a market price of $ 1.3 million, the 1894 residence underwent several adjustments during its lifetime and was doomed for demolition despite its contributions to architectural history. A campaign by the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and the Hinsdale Historic Preservation Commission and Landmarks Illinois has sought to preserve the only Wright-designed structure in Hinsdale and has caught the attention of buyers Safina Uberoi and Lukas Ruecker, who seek to provide the Dutch colonial style house with a facelift in homage to the late architect. Conservatives hope this act of conservation will spur policy changes to protect heritage homes from the wrecking ball.

Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi announces an opening date in five years.

After architectural and pandemic setbacks, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi designed by Frank Gehry announced a opening date in five years. The outpost will provide the museum’s largest exhibition space to date, spanning 320,000 square feet on the waterfront of Saadiyat Island. The Guggenheim also announced a revamped board of directors based on diversity in an effort to expand its audience. The appointments of the first head of culture and inclusion, Ty Woodfolk, in addition to deputy director and senior curator Naomi Beckwith at its New York site, the Guggenheim conveys its global artistic footprint with a focus on how of which “we can refocus where the stories of art are told,” as Beckwith noted.

The recent layoffs at Casper may have contributed to the fall in the brand’s share value.

Following a series of recent hires, including the appointment of a Marketing Director, Technical Director and COO, the mattress company has proceeded with a series of layoffs in part of a global restructuring. Although the eliminated employees received compensation, some parties attribute Casper’s dismissal to Apple’s software update, iOS 14.5, which prevents apps from tracking user data without their consent. Nonetheless, Casper streamlining its retail and operational teams comes at a price. Initially, the brand’s IPO was priced at $ 12 per share, but the closure of physical stores and layoffs of employees put the share price at $ 5 after pandemic recovery efforts .

Christie’s is auctioning off a collection of Radiohead album cover artist Stanley Donwood.

Stanley Donwood has been the backbone of Radiohead’s album covers since 1996. Now his dystopian scenes are auctioned at Christie’s starting at $ 13,810. Donwood submitted a six-part series it’s an extension of Radiohead’s 2001 Child A album cover as part of Christie’s post-war and contemporary art sale which runs October 5-19. By creating apocalyptic landscapes using mixed media and digital editions from physical canvases, Donwood highlights his affinity for ominous images. “They are very textured, painted with the edge of my boot, my knives and my sticks. They are visceral works, ”says the artist. “I was like, ‘I have these huge paintings that I painted 20 years ago. It would be really, really great to show them to people.

Google co-founder Larry Page’s mansion-office succumbs to a mysterious fire.

Known for essentially owning an entire block in Old Palo Alto, the mansion of Google co-founder Larry Page, California, caught fire. Authorities responding to a three alarm fire has not recorded any injuries or fatalities and has yet to reveal the cause of the fire. The incident, however, has sparked a public appeal on local budget allocations and deeper questions surround the findings under ashes, namely the discovery of the covert operation of the $ 10 million residence as an office in small scale for Google employees. The answers to how many other sites host a similar setup and their purpose remains to be seen.

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