LandLAB and SCAPE, working as part of Toi Waihanga design collective, have taken out top honours at the 2025 World Architecture Festival in Miami for Te Ara Tūkūtuku. The project was awarded WAF Future Project: Urban Design, along with the WAFX Award and the WAFX Cultural Identity Prize.

Te Ara Tūkūtuku is a transformative five-hectare public space for the Waitematā waterfront, led through co-design and mātauranga Māori. The design reimagines the city’s coastal edge as a regenerative, climate-responsive, people-centred landscape, strengthening relationships between whenua, moana and tangata.

The WAF Awards are among the most prestigious global accolades in architecture and design, recognising innovation, vision and international impact. This is a significant achievement for Aotearoa’s landscape architecture community and a testament to the strength of indigenous-led, collaborative design practice.

We’ll share a deeper look at the project and its design story on Landscape Architecture Aotearoa soon.