Bill McKay

Contributor Profile

Bill McKay is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture at University of Auckland. As an active writer and researcher, he focuses on New Zealand architectural history. Bill Mckay works as a critic and writes regularly for Architecture NZ and has done numerous architecture exhibitions.

Occupation: Senior Lecturer

Location: Auckland

Warm walls and good manners

Projects | Bill McKay visits Te Mātāwai, Kāinga Ora’s new mixed-tenure, high-density social housing development in Auckland’s Greys Avenue by Mode Design.

Voicing a vision for Uptown

Review | Bill McKay visits the Uptown Futures Festival on Auckland’s city fringe, where student-developed designs look to drive the evolution of the precinct.

Listening to the building

Projects | Bill McKay traverses the histories of the Hayman and Kronfeld buildings in downtown Auckland’s Britomart precinct and their elegant adaptive re-use by Peddlethorp.

Book review: HomeGround. The Story of a Building that Changes Lives

Review | Bill McKay reviews Simon Wilson’s 2022 book HomeGround. The story of a Building that Changes Lives which discusses a new Auckland City landmark.

Channelling that ’70s’ vibe

Projects | West Plaza, Neville Price’s elegant aerofoil, is renamed 1 Albert Street and its podium has a much needed Makeover by Ignite Architects.

Review: Hundertwasser in New Zealand – The Art of Creating Paradise

Review | Bill McKay reviews the latest book on Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser and finds it has much to offer.

Auckland City Mission HomeGround

Projects | In the Auckland City Mission’s HomeGround, Stevens Lawson Architects has designed a building to support our most vulnerable with compassion and dignity.

Houses Revisited: Up periscope

Projects | RTA Studio navigates through a minefield of rules and regulations at Torpedo Bay, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Prop forward

Projects | Revisit a bold and brassy house by Guy Tarrant, first published in 2006, which seems eager to grapple with its suburban Auckland street.

Houses Revisited: Villa redux

Projects | In this home that was originally published in 2007, Palladio, not Ponsonby, is the precedent for a Devonport house by Jane Priest and Vanillaspace.

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