Judges have announced 78 finalists across nine categories for the 2015 Dulux Colour Awards, choosing from the biggest field of entrants, including prominent Australian architecture firms, in the event’s 29 year history.

The 2015 program saw 249 entries entered across the fields of commercial, public, residential, international, interior and student architecture. This year Public Space & Hospitality will be the most hotly contested category with 15 finalists announced, closely followed by the Single Residential Interior category with 14 finalists.

Finalists will now be judged by a panel of architects, designers, editors and artists includingAndrea Wilson, Senior Associate at ARM Architecture; Hannah Tribe, Principal and Founding Director of Tribe Architects; David Bromley, contemporary artist; Sian MacPherson, interior designer and editor of EST magazine and Simon James, contemporary furniture designer from New Zealand.

DCA Commercial Exterior 2015 Finalist Matisse Beach Club by Oldfield Knott Architecture and Commercial Interior Public Spaces and Hospitality Finalist Bremick Group with Mandoon Estate. Images: Supplied.

With entries received from Australia and New Zealand, the industry judging panel will select winners across nine categories – Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail), Commercial Interior (Public Space & Hospitality), Commercial Exterior, Installation and Events, Single Residential Interior, Single Residential Exterior, Multi Residential, International, Student and an overall Grand Prix winner.

(Left) DCA Commercial Interior Office Fitout & Retail Finalist East Ivanhoe Travel & Cruise by Flack Studio and (below) Single Residential Interior Finalist Anglesea House 4 by Emma Mitchell.

Winners of the 2015 Dulux Colour Awards will be announced at a gala event in Melbourne on Wednesday 25 March, 2015.


The 2015 Dulux Colour Awards finalists are:

Australian Finalists

VICTORIA

Project Name

Architecture/Design practice

Category

Brompton Pavilion

Craig Tan Architects

Commercial Exterior

South Morang Zone Substation

Georgina Hoad

Commercial Exterior

Monash Medical Centre Northern Carpark

Silver Thomas Hanley & Des Holmes Architects

Commercial Exterior

East Ivanhoe Travel & Cruise

Flack Studio

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

Flinders Lane Office

MRTN Architects

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

Harris Blake & Parsons

Two Design

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

Mil Constructions

Doherty Design Studio

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

National Australia Bank, Docklands

Woods Bagot

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

REA Group

futurespace

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

Catfish

Russell & George

Commercial Interior (Public Space and Hospitality)

Entrecotè

Flack Studio

Commercial Interior (Public Space and Hospitality)

Fonda Hawthorn

Technē Architecture + Interior Design

Commercial Interior (Public Space and Hospitality)

Huxtaburger Prahan

Russell & George

Commercial Interior (Public Space and Hospitality)

Phamily Kitchen

Mathew van Kooy

Commercial Interior (Public Spaces and Hospitality)

Lexus Design Pavilion

Mim Design

Installation and Events

Linear Apartments

Ascui & Co Architects

Multi Residential Exterior

Anglesea House 4

Emma Mitchell

Single Residential Exterior

Curtain Street

Workshop Architecture

Single Residential Exterior

Robb Street House

Renae Barrass Interior Design

Single Residential Exterior

Anglesea House 4

Emma Mitchell

Single Residential Interior

Beaumaris 60's House

Austin Design Associates

Single Residential Interior

Domain Residence

Travis Walton

Single Residential Interior

East Melbourne Residence

Flack Studio

Single Residential Interior

Local House

MAKE Architecture

Single Residential Interior

Black Box White Cube

Kathleen Duffy (RMIT)

Student

Concealing the Crisis

Amelyn Ng (Melbourne University)

Student

In Search of a Suburban Domain

Nicholas Stathopoulos (RMIT)

Student

Victorian Leadership Academy

William Brouwers (RMIT)

Student

NEW SOUTH WALES

Project Name

Architecture/Design practice

Category

Mid North Coast Correctional Learning Centre

Bradley Architecture

Commercial Exterior

A boy and his dog

Lisa Moore, And Architecture

Single Residential Interior

St Justin's Catholic Primary School

Thomson Adsett

Commercial Exterior

Stanmore Library

MAKE Creative

Commercial Exterior

Warringah Creative Space

Michael England

Commercial Exterior

Kaleidoscope Community Health Services

EJE Architecture

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

Mi9

The Bold Collective

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

Riot Games

futurespace

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

Wotif Group

futurespace

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

Wunderman/Bienalto

The Bold Collective

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

ACU Library Refurbishment

Big City Design

Commercial Interior Public Spaces and Hospitality)

CT Building Refurbishment

CKDS Architecture

Commercial Interior Public Spaces and Hospitality)

Din Tai Fung Miranda

Design Clarity

Commercial Interior Public Spaces and Hospitality)

Epping Road Childcare Centre

futurespace

Commercial Interior Public Spaces and Hospitality)

Rockpool est.1989

Grant Cheyne Design

Commercial Interior (Public Spaces and Hospitality)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Project Name

Architecture/Design practice

Category

Matisse Beach Club

Oldfield Knott Architecture

Commercial Exterior

Mandoon Estate

Bremick Group

Commercial Interior (Public Spaces and Hospitality)

QUEENSLAND

Project Name

Architecture/Design practice

Category

Toowoomba Base Hospital

Aspect Architects

Commercial Exterior

Koko Black Indooroopilly

Russell & George

Commercial Interior (Office Fitout & Retail)

Lady Cilento Children's Hospital

Conrad Gargett Lyons

Commercial Interior (Public Spaces and Hospitality)

NEW ZEALAND / INTERNATIONAL

Project Name

Architecture/Design practice

Category

Clyde Quay Wharf

Athfield Architects

Commercial Exterior

Waiheke Island Artworks and Library

Pacific Environments NZ

Commercial Interior (Public Spaces and Hospitality)

Whiti te Ra! The Story of Ngati Toa

Craig Turvey

Installation and Events

Clyde Quay Wharf

Athfield Architects

International

Isaac Theatre Royal

Warren and Mahoney

International

Koko Black Queenstown

Russell & George

International

Otoparae

SPACE Architecture

International

The Fifth Ship

Trent Hiles

International

Whiti te Ra! The Story of Ngati Toa

3D Creative

International

Otaparae

SPACE Architecture

Single Residential Interior

Grand Papua Hotel

Space Studio

Commercial Interior (Public Spaces and Hospitality)

Water Based Office Space  

Matt South (WINTEC)

Student

Out of the East

Tomoki Takei

Student

Images: Supplied by Dulux.