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EDGE OF HEAVEN

Liminal House comes by its name honestly. Cascading over the sea wall between the city and the harbour, between dense metropolis and wilderness, land and sand, it occupies a spectacular threshold, and not just physically. The couple who live here were at a juncture in their working and family lives when they hired architects Lisa Bovell and Matt McLeod of Vancouver practice McLeod Bovell. ‘Their lives are like waves on the ebb – they are

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