"The Preston house was built for an impecunious jeweller living alone on a bush-covered site perched high above Muriwai beach, on New Zealand's wild west coast, onto whose apparently endless stretches of blue-black iron sand the Tasman surf rolls unceasingly, driven by a prevailing onshore wind.
The client had lived hitherto in a caravan attached to a hut, and wanted to build something more comfortable but otherwise not dissimilar. He asked for a good deal of corrugated iron, and referred the architect to a photograph of an old Auckland chemical store."
- The Architectural Review July 1987