The Thiruvalluvar Pedestrian Bridge proposal for Kanyakumari, India, designed by the New Zealand firm Monk-Mackenzie in collaboration with Auckland based Novare Design, has been announced as the winner of the 2018 award under the category of Infrastructure Future Projects. This is a proposal for a 500 m long pedestrian bridge across the Indian Ocean, which is in two spans and connects 3 points. The bridge is purposed to connect the southern-most tip of the Indian mainland with the 133 feet tall statue of Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar, a philosopher of secular ethics and morality, which is out at sea and continuing further to end at the Vivekananda Memorial Rock.