Dulux Colour Awards 2025
This year's winners showcased exceptional creativity, with a notable trend towards using single colours as defining design strategies.
Awards celebrate single-colour design brilliance
Judges praised the exceptional level of innovation and originality across all categories of the Dulux Colour Awards, making the selection process challenging.
In determining the winners and commendation awards, this year’s judges engaged in spirited debate for some categories and unanimously agreed in others. The panel comprised Andrew Parr, Director of Interiors at SJB; Kim Bridgland, Director at Edition Office; Rachel Luchetti, Co-Founder of Luchetti Krelle; Kerstin Thompson, Principal and Founder of KTA; Alex McLeod, Co-Founder of at.space, NZ; and, Dulux Colour and Communications Manager, Andrea Lucena-Orr.
The New Zealand and Australian Grand Prix winners exemplified the awards' goals of highlighting innovative uses of colour in architectural design.
New Zealand Grand Prix winner, Pac Studio, was honoured for the interior residential transformation of Lava Flow, showcasing a volcanic red ceiling in Silo Park to reference Auckland's landscape.
Richards Stanisich received the Australian Grand Prix award for its clear vision of pairing the green Delta Break with reflective surfaces for an ethereal effect inside the Sarah & Sebastian Armadale store in Melbourne.
The category winners were recognised for their outstanding colour use and design execution from using unconventional colour on heritage projects to softening an industrial depot with graduated greens on its façade.
Celebrating design excellence
Highlights from the Dulux Colour Awards 2025 gala and reflections from the judges.
Our judges
Five of New Zealand and Australia’s most prolific architects and designers, who have been recognised and awarded for their own work, judged the 2025 awards entrants based on innovation, expression and execution of colour.
Previous winners and finalists
Revisit the projects that captured the attention of our judges.
Image credits, terms and conditions
Images: Lillie Thompson Sarah & Sebastian Armadale | Leon Schoots Dja Dja Wurrung Corporate and Community Centre | Rory Gardiner Alexandria House, and Monash Robotics Lab | Peter Bennetts Darebin Intercultural Centre, and Fitzroy Crossing Renal Hostel | Matthew Densley 22 William | Dennis Radermacher Social Housing Development Rangiora | Adam Madigan Giraffe Early Learning Centre.
Winners were announced at the 39th Dulux Colour Awards on Wednesday, 28 May 2025 at the National Gallery of Victoria. The Australian Grand Prix award was chosen from the Australian category winners, excluding the Student category, and received AU$5,000. The New Zealand Grand Prix award was selected from the New Zealand finalists, excluding the Student category, and received NZ$5,000.