The winners of the thirty ninth Dulux Color Awards, which recognise transformative examples of color use within the constructed surroundings throughout Australia and New Zealand, have been chosen from a shortlist of 88 tasks. In response to a communique from Dulux, this 12 months’s prized tasks “push the boundaries of established genres and defy beforehand accepted norms to astound and delight with their complexity and ambition.”

“Our intention with the Dulux Color Awards is to disclose and reward the last word exemplars of architectural innovation utilizing Dulux Color as a central design gadget,” stated Dulux color and communications supervisor Andrea Lucena-Orr.

Dulux famous that this 12 months’s Grand Prix winners “characterize considerably of a sample rising, particularly the usage of a single color because the pivotal and defining design technique.” This technique is obvious in Australia’s Grand Prix-winning mission, the Sarah and Sebastian Armadale retail retailer by Richards Stanisich, which takes a putting inexperienced and juxtaposes it with reflective surfaces inside faceted areas.

Throughout the classes, Dulux famous that “rule-breaking and genre-defying color utilization is obvious,” together with the unconventional software of latest colouron heritage tasks, or to melt historically ‘exhausting’ constructing typologies. The multi-tone inexperienced facade of Industrial and Multi-residential Exterior winner, Northern Park Memorial Depot by Searle x Waldron Structure, is an instance of the latter. “This remedy represents a design resolution to method an industrial program with sensitivity, and to realize that throughspecific color decisions applicable to the context and pure surrounds,” stated Lucena-Orr.

Probably the most hotly contested class this 12 months, that of residential interiors, drew intense dialogue among the many judges as they weighed up the finalists. The successful mission, Elonera Home by Studio Doherty, and the three commendation award winners current vastly totally different color methods and schemes.

The 2025 jury comprised director of SJB Andrew Parr; co-founder of At.Area Alex McLeod; co-founder of Luchetti Krelle Rachel Luchetti; co-founder and director of Version Workplace Kim Bridgland; principal at Kerstin Thompson Architects and adjunct professor at RMIT and Monash Universities Kerstin Thompson, and Lucena-Orr.

Lucena-Orr mirrored, “We’re persistently astounded by the calibre of paradigm-shifting tasks, and the architects and designers behind them who break boundaries, problem conventions and defy expectations with their profound appreciation of the potential of color.”

The successful tasks are: