Musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has removed the windows and gutted the interior of a concrete home in Malibu, California, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Images of the home's bare structure have been widely shared following a New Yorker article where contractor Tony Saxon detailed how the house was gutted at the request of Ye, who in recent years has been condemned for his public antisemitic comments.

Ye has stripped a Tadao Ando-designed home back to its concrete structure. Above and top photos by Backgrid

Ye's transformation of the Ando-designed beach house, which he purchased in 2021 for $57.3 million, included ripping out the ocean-facing windows, kitchen, marble-clad bathrooms, concrete hot tub and indoor fireplace with its stainless steel chimney pipes.

The work began shortly after the purchase with the City of Malibu issuing the first of three stop-work orders in December 2021, as construction was happening without permits. It was put on the market in April this year for $39 million.

Changes were made to the building without permits. Photo by Backgrid

The home was originally designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Ando for Wall Street financier Richard Sachs, with local architecture studio Marmol Radziner working as executive architect.

"We hope to be involved in rebuilding what we built once before," Marmol Radziner design partner Ron Radziner told Dezeen.

"It would be wonderful to bring the house back to Tadao Ando's vision."