Out of an unprecedented 435 entries to this year’s Dulux Colour Awards, 114 were selected as finalists. New Zealand students and designers have shown up with an impressive 11 entries shortlisted. 

Davina Harper, Dulux colour specialist, says, “We were thrilled to see the calibre of submissions for this year’s awards program. Architects and designers have really set a new precedent with their masterful and innovative employment of colour to create unexpected, lively, playful and refined interior and exterior spaces.”

The judging panel will select six winners, one from each category: Commercial Interior: Public and Hospitality; Commercial Interior: Workplace and Retail; Commercial and Multi-Residential Exterior; Residential Interior; Single Residential Exterior; and Student. New Zealand category winners, excluding students, will also have the chance to win the New Zealand Grand Prix title and $5,000 prize money.

Winners will be announces on 8 May 2019 at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

The New Zealand finalists are:

Commercial Interior: Public and Hospitality

• Wains Hotel Dunedin by Yellow6

Commercial and Multi Residential Exterior

• Mount Roskill Municipal Building Restoration by Matthews & Matthews Architects
• Rangiora RSA by Andrea Robertson Design
• Napier Lane by JWA Architects
• The Wine House by Crosson Architects

Residential Interior

Pac Studio

• The Pines by Glamuzina Architects
• Yolk House by 

Single Residential Exterior

• DNA House by Crosson Architects

Student

• The Performance Terrain Theatre by Lauren Gibbs, Auckland University of Technology
• within by Chang Huang, Auckland University of Technology
• The Commons by Abbey Hale, Auckland University of Technology