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The purpose of this paper was to explore how to plan a direction of public design on the harbour and waterfront that enlivens the placeness and utilizes the advantage of harbour and waterfront, potentially valued for expanding urban infrastructure and supplying lands. Analyzing the case of HafenCity Hamburg and Cardiff Bay Wales that succeeded in making public architecture and public space with waterfront development, this study suggested the ways to public design on the waterfront. This paper reviews an assessment of how it adapts affect and exploits an existing urban pattern and concludes with the establishment of the public design: the impacts of the factors contributing to urban development and the evidence of their effects on the waterfront; the largest master-planned waterfront development featured public cultural-leisure architecture as it seeks to revive a former industrial and waterfront site; the extent to cultural and leisure input to the waterfront area in proportion to public openspace, esplanad and pedestrian districts.