Honoured that our cultural, landscape and regeneratively-led vision for Te Ara Tukutuku on the Tāmaki Makaurau waterfront has won the Urban Design Category at this years World Architecture Festival (WAF).
Developed through a unique partnership between Ngā Iwi Mana Whenua, the Auckland Urban Development Office (AUDO), and our multi-disciplinary design consortium ‘Toi Waihanga’ Te Ara Tukutuku reconnects land, water and people through a landscape-first approach grounded in whakapapa and place. It demonstrates how an ecologically intelligent approach can shape a resilient and regenerative future.
Proud to see this collaborative kaupapa recognised on the global stage. Ki te hoe!
@audoakl@scape_studio@becagroup@mottmacgroup@done@uruwhakaaro@freshconceptaotearoa@rlb@rcp_newzealand
Morphum Environmental
Tataki
Stellar Projects
LandLAB are pleased to receive 3 x Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ) BEST Awards for 2025;
01_ Karanga Plaza Jump Platform ‘Spatial’ GOLD
02_ Te Rimutahi (in collaboration with BECA) ‘Lighting Design’ GOLD
03_ Ko Te Pūkākī (in collaboration with Ngāti Whatua Ōrākei) ‘Toitonga’ BRONZE
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The LandLAB team are thrilled to win 3 x categories in the 2025 World Landscape Architecture (WLA) Awards @worldlandscapearchitect
Te Ara Tuktuku was the winner in the ‘Conceptual Public Space’ category.
Te Ara Tukutuku is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most ambitious landscape regeneration and city-shaping projects of a generation. It will heal a contaminated and reclaimed headland site on the edge of Te Waitematā harbour– rebinding the relationship between whenua (land) and moana (sea). Through a collaborative co-design process that deeply engages mātauranga Māori (indigenous knowledge) and tīkanga (practices), this 5-hectare site is being transformed from its petrochemical past into a thriving, healthy coastal environment.
Read more about the project here; https://www.landlab.studio/work/te-ara-tukutuku and here: https://www.audo.co.nz/projects/tearatukutuku/
Team: Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau + Auckland Urban Development Office @audoakl + SCAPE @scape_studio + BECA @becagroup + Mott MacDonald @mottmacgroup + DONE @done.ltd + Morphum Environmental + Tataki + Uru Whakaaro @uruwhakaaro + Stellar Projects + Fresh Concept @freshconceptaotearoa + RLB + RCP @rcp_newzealand
Karanga Plaza Jump Platform_
The LandLAB team are thrilled to win 3 x categories in the 2025 World Landscape Architecture (WLA). @worldlandscapearch
Karanga Plaza Jump Platform was the winner in the ‘Small Landscape Spaces’ category.
This project enables and celebrates urban swimming on Tāmaki’s urban waterfront and creates a space for safe swimming and an enhanced connection to the marine environment. Situated on the edge of Te Waitematā Harbour, this context inspires a site specific response to the marine life beneath the surface and a sculptural celebration of the theatre and spectacle of urban swimming.
Client: Auckland Urban Development Office (AUDO)
Team: Novare (Structure) + McConnell Dowell (Contractor) @mcconnell_dowell
Ko Te Pūkākī
The LandLAB team are thrilled to win 3 x categories in the 2025 World Landscape Architecture (WLA) Awards. @worldlandscapearch
Ko Te Pūkākī was the winner of the ‘Planning and Research’ category. Developed for and with Ngāti Whatua Ōrākei (NWŌ) this project is a unique NWŌ-led regeneration programme to establish a thriving, resilient environment which places their people, practices and culture at its heart. LandLAB have been supporting NWŌ in the shaping of this mahi with the tools of landscape architecture and ecology, and in particular providing support for the graphic communication of KTP. It is here that these tools and geo-spatial technologies have meshed with NWŌ mātauranga (traditional knowledge) to create a unique and place-led publication which articulates the intent, the aspiration and the reverence NWŌ have for their whenua.
Team: Ngāti Whatua Ōrākei @ngatiwhatuaorakei + LandLAB
LandLAB are excited to have three projects shortlisted in the 2025 World Landscape Architecture (WLA) awards_
Ko Te Pūkākī (LandLAB + Ngāti Whatua Ōrākei @ngatiwhatuaorakei ) in the ‘Planning and Research’ category, Karanga Plaza Jump Platform in the ‘Small Projects’ category and Te Ara Tukutuku (LandLAB + SCAPE) in the ‘Conceptual Public Space’ category.
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Pleased to be a Finalist in the A+ Architizer Awards Un Built Landscape category for Te Ara Tukutuku. Designed for Eke Panuku @panukuakl and the Mana whenua Project Working Group (including all 13 Tāmaki Iwi). Our consortium ‘Toi Waihanga’ comprises LandAB + SCAPE @scape_studio + Uru Whakaaro @uruwhakaaro + Tataki + Morphum + BECA @becagroup + Mott MacDonald @mottmacgroup + Stellar Projects + DONE @done.ltd + Fresh Concept @freshconceptaotearoa + RCP @rcp_newzealand + RLB @riderlevettbucknallnz + Mitchell Daysh
Pleased to have received a Special Mention in the A+ Architizer 2025 Awards for the Karanga Jump Platform. Designed for @panukuakl with Novare and @mcconnell_dowell@architizer
