2025 Finalists
Below are all 32 finalists for the 2025 AAA Design Awards.
These projects will be displayed at the 2025 AAA Design Awards night on Thursday 9th October, 5-8PM, with the winners announced after 6PM.
Judges were given the projects without the entrants names attached to them, to keep them anonymous.
Unbuilt design
Epiphany Rise by Alexander Wong & Antony Lu
The Infinite Line in Motion by David Phan
Circular Living: Enlivening Panmure's Local Food Economy by Hannah Thompson
SANDO: Half for You by Kaiyo Ruthe
To the Lighthouse by Leith Macfarlane
Ngahere Sanctuary by Lilli Pritchard
Tāwharau a Place to Pause and Part by Lydias Yong
The Observatory by Lydias Yong
Whare Tiaki Taiao by Nathan Moore
The Tyler Street Garage by Paige Walton
Te Aroha o te Wairua, The love of the Spirit by Vicky Huang
De Verdronken Zwarte Poler, A Human Expression: "The Marsh Machine" by Vincent Heijnen
Eat at the Source by Yang Yang Liu
NAVIGATING THE WIND : A VESSEL UNVEILS TRADITIONAL WISDOM by Yujie Weng
Craft object
Y Shelter by Billy Pengelly
Other contributors: Andrew Barrie Lab
Waffling Question by Karl Mendez & Rosemary Li
Other contributors: KP Cabinet Ltd
Lathed Artefacts - A Series by Lilli Pritchard
The Settlers of Ōhope by Rebecca Campbell & Isabella Cox-Fraider
Tapestries of Tāmaki [Finding our Feet] by Sahil Tiku
Other contributors: Sakina Ali & Madeline Brown (Photography).
Materials Matter by Vincent Heijnen, Renee Brants, Lena Anna Arida de Rouw, Janek Thomas Bosman, Manon Liza L De Kooning, Freek Eigenraam, Frans Ramses Wassen, Emile Marc C Waterkeyn, Merlijn Felix Lewerissa, Noor Zeeman, Jaron Jonathan Smit, Lisanne Fung, & Sijmen An de Vries
Peripheral media
The Garden of Broken Shadows by Ali Al Omari
Our Stories Begin with the Trees by Donna Luo
Re-Identification Machines by Isabella Zeng
Other Contributors: Thesis Professor - Manfredo Manfredini (University of Auckland)
Foregrounding Urban Futures: Bio-regional Materiality at Te Rimutahi by Joseph Bjelic-Webster
Muriwai Imprint: A Layered Section by Lilli Pritchard
A Reservoir Folly by Yang Yang Liu
Table for ONE:MORE by Yang Yang Liu
The Spirit Banquet by Yang Yang Liu
The Enemy is Within the Gates by Yeyeon Kwak
emerging practice
Coatesville Courtyard House by Noah Bian
Other contributors: Auckland Architectural Designs Ltd
Summerhill Community Base by Leith Macfarlane
Other contributors: Matt Liggins Studio
Rachel Wegrzyn by Rachel Wegrzyn