With a wide range of creative and colourful projects from homes to businesses, community work to landscapes, the award winners exemplify the role colour plays to accentuate design and how it uplifts our spaces inside and out.

This year's event marked a significant milestone, not only due to it being the 15th year of the awards, but also due to the remarkable volume and quality of project submissions, making the judging process both thrilling and challenging. Following the largest number of entries in the previous year's awards, this was eclipsed by an even bigger number of entries this year.

Taking home the top honour, the Resene Total Colour Master Nightingale Award, as well as the Resene Total Colour Commercial Exterior Award was the joyful repainting of the Chelsea Sugar Head Office exterior. On what was once a standard office building, a new confection of sweet hues brings a burst of imaginative energy to inspire the young users of the adjacent playground through a vibrant yet historically sensitive Resene colour palette that features Resene Foundry, Resene Red Damask, Resene Outrageous, Resene Supernova, Resene Yellow Sea, Resene Simply Red, Resene Scrumptious, Resene Illusion, Resene Titania and Resene Woodsman Oregon.

The judging panel, which included Sylvia Sandford (colour expert), John Walsh (previous editor of Architecture, architecture writer) and Laura Lynn Johnston (editor of BlackWhite magazine, previous editor of habitat magazine) praised the thoughtfulness behind the many projects submitted, noting how Resene products were not only used aesthetically but also functionally to evoke emotion, define space and enhance user experience of the projects. While not every project could be recognised with an award, they were awestruck by the talent, creativity and efforts on display in each submission.

Congratulations to all the award winners and a heartfelt thank you to everyone who took the time to enter their projects in the awards. Look out for many of these projects appearing in Resene media.