Takutai Square in Auckland’s Britomart precinct is now the temporary home to the finalists in the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora/Brick Bay Nohonga design challenge.

A Monday morning ceremony saw the launch of the temporary installation before the stunning finalists make their way to the Brick Bay winery near Matakana.

This stage of the landscape architecture competition wasn’t without its issues though, with one of the entries, Boffa Miskell’s “Bioluminescence” proving too heavy to sit above the Britomart rail tracks.

Bioluminescence will be heading straight to Brick Bay later this week.

Matthew Jones, speaking on behalf the Auckland branch of the NZILA, says he is excited to see the finalists take their place at Britomart, but also looks forward to seeing them all at Brick Bay as that is where they were designed to sit.