Rare midcentury-modern home designed by Twin Towers architect lists for $2.89M

A uncommon Michigan location designed by Minoru Yamasaki, nan visionary designer down New York City’s original World Trade Center, has conscionable been listed for $2.89 million.

The precocious Yamasaki, champion known for creating nan original Twin Towers, which tragically fell during nan 9/11 panic attacks, designed this gem successful 1957, good earlier his career-defining task successful Lower Manhattan.

The 3,700-square-foot home, located astatine 5280 Brookdale Road, features six bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and sits connected a 2.64-acre lot.

With its level roof, expansive windows and unfastened layout, this ranch-style location embodies Yamasaki’s signature modernist style, showcasing nan aforesaid cleanable lines and understated elegance he later employed successful nan creation of nan Twin Towers.

The home, located successful Bloomfield Hills adjacent Detroit, has been owned since 1988 by Sameer Eid, nan restaurateur down Birmingham’s Phoenicia and Forest restaurants, arsenic good arsenic Leila successful downtown Detroit.

Eid bought nan location aft a serendipitous speech pinch a friend astatine 1 of his restaurants. For much than 3 decades, he raised his family successful this architectural treasure, cherishing its simplicity and tranquility.

“It’s perfect, easy living,” Eid told Crains Detroit, pointing retired nan home’s spacious, single-story layout.

Beyond nan home’s humanities and architectural significance, it sits successful a sought-after area wherever caller improvement is booming.

The spot is listed by Dylan Tent of Signature Sotheby’s International Realty.

Tent speculates that nan spot could entreaty to a purchaser looking to sphere Yamasaki’s creation aliases perchance build a caller estate.

“You could put a massive, beautiful property connected that lot,” Tent suggested, hinting astatine nan increasing inclination of tearing down mid-century homes for caller building successful nan neighborhood.

The home’s backyard erstwhile boasted complete 50 trees, including a centuries-old oak character believed to beryllium nan oldest successful Oakland County, which fell aft years of decay.

Removing it, Eid said, “broke my heart.”