Looking at photographs of Toronto’s surreal and gravity-defying new Sharp Centre, one wonders whether such a bizarre and whimsical structure could possibly exist in reality. But as Benjamin Forgey discovered, the building – a huge horizontal rectangle with a distinct crossword-puzzle motif, balanced precariously atop six pairs of stilts – is every bit as real as the photos suggest. “The marvel is threefold: that folks rather enthusiastically allowed this thing to be built, that it works so well as a practical matter, and that, quite simply, it is beautiful.”