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Quadra Home With Five Sites Converging With Its Philanthropists
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The Quadra Island home of philanthropists Eric Peterson and Christina Munck is perched on a volcanic outcropping like an elongated periscope -- a sleek apparatus for viewing this tumultuous landscape 100 miles north of the Canadian city of Vancouver.
The jagged sheets of steel, frameless planes of glass and honed concrete walls that collide in the 420-square-meter (4,500-square-foot) structure suggest the fractured forms of Wassily Kandinsky, Bloomberg Pursuits will report in its Summer 2013 issue. In fact, all those acute angles were inspired by the tangle of storm-tossed logs on the rugged beach below.