I wish I didn't, but I kind of love all that Kayne has been doing. Maybe it took someone of his, I'm hesitant to write "stature", but someone of his notoriety to create the tectonic shift in thought that has occurred of late. For at least a year now I have been a believer, with some, that we are entering what will be looked on in the future as a Golden Age. The media and entertainment industries are largely stuck in their sclerotic thinking, so it isn't being reported, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening, nor that they can stop it.
But this is a site devoted to real estate finance so I need to keep blog posts on topic.
The system here will not let me link directly to websites so please take a look for yourself at the link below, but here is the cut and pasted article:
Forget about albums, Kanye West now drops renderings.
The rapper turned designer, entrepreneur and now developer revealed his newly-formed architecture studio’s first project, a prefabricated affordable housing scheme, via one of his collaborator’s Instagram account this week, according to the Architect’s Newspaper.
The public release of the renderings come weeks after West filmed an interview where he spoke about his plans to build a real estate empire. In a lengthy taped conversation between him and radio and television personality Charlamagne Tha God, West said, “I’m going to be one of the biggest real estate developers of all time. Like what Howard Hughes was to aircrafts and what Henry Ford was to cars.”
The interview concluded with both men walking along a grassy hilltop on a 300-acre property owned by West, which he claimed would be the location of his first “community.” West said he planned to build five properties on the land.
West’s had a long-standing interest in architecture — he appeared at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 2013 to address a class from on top a desk– and has collaborated with architects such as OMA, Family, John Pawson, and Alex Vervoodt as Architect’s Newspaper reported. And, more recently, West worked with Willo Perron to renovate a more than 14,000-square-foot office building from the 1970s into the headquarters of his company, Yeezy Studio, in Calabasas, California.
But it was only last month, via Twitter, that he announced his new venture to bring architectural design in-house: “We’re starting a Yeezy architecture arm called Yeezy home,” he tweeted. “We’re looking for architects and industrial designers who want to make the world better.”
https://therealdeal.com/2018/06/09/kanye-west-to-be-one-of-the-biggest-real-estate-developers-of-all-time/#new_tab#new_tab
