An architectural marvel of a Toronto house that’s on the market for a cool $23 million has captured CNN’s attention.
Perched on a ravine, the curving concrete-and-glass building was built by Dr. Jim Stewart, a late mathematician who made his fortune writing math textbooks before his death last year at the age of 73. Fittingly, he named it “Integral House,” after his great passion - calculus.
Stewart hunted the world for an architect, interviewing the likes of Frank Gehry, but eventually settled on a local firm, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, and gave them free rein to design the 18,000-square-foot mansion. He lived alone in the building, but used it’s stunning interiors as a venue for gatherings and performances, hosting luminaries like Philip Glass and Steve Reich. He was also a patron of LGBT causes, and used the space to promote them. As CNN reports, Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art called Integral House “one of the most important private houses built in North America in a long time.” And now it could be yours - if you can make the math add up.
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Source: CNN