WATCH: Global design highlights including the Dulux Colour Awards 2021.
Now in its 35th year, the Dulux Colour Awards are a magnet for some of the most illuminating and boundary-pushing projects in residential and commercial design. The program rewards architects, designers and students in Australia and New Zealand with cash prizes for work that continues to celebrate the sophisticated and masterful use of colour.
“It is evident that architects and designers are increasingly using colour as an integral design tool to provide a space meaning in both its functional and environmental contexts,” says Andrea Lucena-Orr, colour planning and communications manager at Dulux.
Building upon the program’s colourful foundations, the 2021 call-out for entries, which is happening now, is once again expected to attract spectacular submissions from eligible participants until its closing date on May 24. “Dulux is eager to see their creative employment of colour across a vast breadth of architectural genres with this year’s submissions,” Andrea says.
2021 Dulux Colour Awards / News highlights
- The 2021 Dulux Colour Awards are now open to entries from architects, designers and students.
- Hosted by paint maker Dulux, the awards program recognises the masterful use of colour in Australia and New Zealand.
- Awards categories include interior and exterior colour use across commercial and residential projects.
- Entries for the cash prize program close May 24.
As with previous years, leading experts from Australia and New Zealand’s architecture and interior design industries will form the judging panel for the 2021 edition of the Dulux Colour Awards.
This year’s lineup of judges includes Jefa Greenaway, director of Greenaway Architects; Melissa Bright, director of Studio Bright; Patrick Loo, director of Common Space; Sarah-Jane Pyke, co-founding director of Arent & Pyke; and Suzannah Waldron, director of Searle x Waldron Architecture.
Judge Melissa Bright, who received a commendation in the 2020 Dulux Colour Awards for her studio’s Ruckers Hill House project, says she is particularly looking out for the ways in which designers harness colour to support a project’s bigger idea, where it’s seamlessly integrated rather than being used as a “feature” or layer of decoration. “The Dulux Colour Awards are a fantastic way to connect with the larger community and promote good design,” she adds.
The Dulux Colour Awards are a fantastic way to connect with the larger community and promote good design.
The judges will review the shortlisted entries across the following categories:
- Commercial Interior – Workplace and Retail: Interior paint finishes of any commercial or industrial building, for example: offices, studios, factories, retail outlets, pop-up shops and shopping centres.
- Commercial Interior – Public and Hospitality: Interior paint finishes of any commercial or industrial building, for example: community centres, museums, theatres, places of worship, cafes, restaurants, fitness centres, hotels, one-off installations, event spaces, education and healthcare facilities.
- Commercial and Multi-Residential Exterior: Exterior paint finishes of any commercial, industrial, education facility or multi-residential apartment building.
- Residential Interior: Interior paint finishes of a private residence, including single and multi-residential.
- Single Residential Exterior: Exterior paint finishes of a private single residence.
- Student (Years 1–6): Paint specification by architecture or interior design students who are currently attending or have just completed (within the past 12 months) a course by a recognised university or college.
Winners of the 2021 Dulux Colour Awards will be announced in August 2021.
