Kim Kardashian declared to have a “love affair with architecture, specifically Japanese”. In fact, she hired Domus guest editor 2021 Tadao Ando – who has designed in 2013 the villa in Malibu where now live Kanye West, her ex husband – and Kengo Kuma to build two different holiday homes in the US: a mansion in Palm Springs, California, and a lakeside lodge, in an undisclosed location.
![Tadao Ando. Photo Kinji Kanno. Tadao Ando. Photo Kinji Kanno.](/content/dam/domusweb/it/news/2022/02/22/tadao-ando-e-kengo-kuma-stanno-progettando-due-case-per-le-vacanze-di-kim-kardashian/domus-tadaoando-1.png.foto.rmedium.png)
Ando is working at the first, located in a private gated community to the South of Palm Springs. The Pritzker Prize winning-architect is designing a two-storey mansion with a curved triangular footprint. The final result, as Kardashian said, will be “concrete, gray-toned, and really zen”. Kuma is working instead on a “glass-and-wood lake house”, where Kardashian says she plans to celebrate the Fourth of July and spent the Independence Days with her family.
![Kengo Kuma. Photo JC Carbonne. Kengo Kuma. Photo JC Carbonne.](/content/dam/domusweb/it/news/2022/02/22/tadao-ando-e-kengo-kuma-stanno-progettando-due-case-per-le-vacanze-di-kim-kardashian/domus-kengokuma-1.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
Kardashian explained that her love for architecture began during renovation of her Calabasas home, which became so monochrome and sparsely furnished that she jokingly describes it as a “minimal monastery”. The only exceptions is the guest house, which comes in the form of a traditional samurai home, that her art dealer, Axel Vervoordt, used to own.