The winners of the 38th Dulux Colour Awards, recently announced at the Sydney Opera House, represent the pinnacle of design excellence and the most innovative, refined and transformative use of colour in our built environment.
Selected from 83 finalists across Australia and New Zealand, this year?s winning projects are exceptional in their paradigm shifting approach to colour usage. They challenge the accepted norms of their respective typologies and set new benchmarks for innovation with colour in utterly surprising yet universally successful ways.
?It is fitting that this year?s awards were presented at the Sydney Opera House, for it is the embodiment of exceptional design and precedent-setting architecture, qualities that the program epitomises,? says Andrea Lucena-Orr, Dulux Colour and Communications Manager. ?We aim to identify the ultimate expressions of colour in the built environment and, in doing so, to highlight the transformative potential of colour when combined with outstanding design.? Nowhere is this better displayed than in the Australian and New Zealand Grand Prix winners. Alexandria House, the winner of the Australian Grand Prix, was unanimously applauded for its commitment to a singular gesture in the application of Dulux Cumberland Red, a deep burnished red to the ceiling of the home. The unpredictability of this design strategy redefines the genre and demonstrates, so simply, the strength of an original idea and the power of colour to transform our expe...