Taylor and Hinds Architects

Taylor and Hinds Architects We are a Tasmanian based architecture practice. www.taylorandhinds.com.au Website coming soon!

We are a young and passionate architectural practice, specialising in contemporary and high quality small-medium scale work.

The Homestead Renewal at Wybalenna has been awarded at the National HOUSES awards in Naarm, receiving the award for Hous...
05/09/2026

The Homestead Renewal at Wybalenna has been awarded at the National HOUSES awards in Naarm, receiving the award for House in a Heritage Context. Our thanks to Houses and the jury.

In part the jury citation reads:

‘Rather than restoring the building to a singular historical moment, the project adopts a carefully considered process of subtraction. The selective removal of accumulated layers reveals deeper histories and strengthens the building’s role as a place of truth-telling and healing. Salvaged and repurposed materials reinforce an approach grounded in environmental responsibility and care for Country.

In doing so, the homestead renewal demonstrates how heritage practice can move beyond the conservation of fabric alone to support truth-telling, cultural renewal and healing.‘

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Our unending thanks and honouring to Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, including the past and present Land Council, Sarah Wilcox, Greg Brown, Rebecca Digney, Michael Mansell and the wider Aboriginal community for their trust, and leadership. In order to do this work with you, you have allowed us into Wybalenna’s sacred interior. This has been a privilege for us.

Also to special thanks to the following amazing people:

Stephenie Cahalan - who project managed and negotiated the project on behalf of ALCT from its beginning.

Forrest Whitten and Uwe Fieste of Legacy Structures whose team poured themselves and their extraordinary skills into this place.

Vica Bayley - who worked with ALCT to prepare the ground for this renewal.

Also to those who generously donated material and funding for this work:
Troy Gent BlueScope
Simone Blamey AGA Rayburn Australia
William Pearse artedomus
Alexander Lindqvist Astra Walker
Tim Robins Everick Heritage and the Everick Foundation
Geoff and Virginia Hassell

And the people who continue to donate to the Truth Telling at Wybalenna Chuffed.org - Australia crowdfunding campaign - led by the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. So many thanks.

Your contributions enable the realisation of this generational effort at a site of unparalleled sacredness for Palawa.

There is still more to do, so please donate to support this internationally significant Truth-telling at Wybalenna.

Link to donate here: https://chuffed.org/project/mx9-truth-telling-at-wybalenna

Liverpool StreetCompleted 2026b: Lane Group Construction p: Adam Gibson
28/08/2026

Liverpool Street
Completed 2026
b: Lane Group Construction
p: Adam Gibson

Liverpool Street, renewal of the original Millington Coffin Workshops into an intense urban offering of microhousing and...
20/08/2026

Liverpool Street, renewal of the original Millington Coffin Workshops into an intense urban offering of microhousing and high calibre urban dining in central Nipaluna | Hobart, including Scholé and Atlas and Vine.

Maisonettes sleeved into the original coffin making workshops, with interstitial gardens, and funereal veils as light baffles, and filters.

Surgically constructed by Perry Lane Lane Group Construction for client and developer custodians Sharon, Mick, and Rachel. Congratulations to them for their trust and commitment to such a civic vision.

Architect assisting Gabrielle Phillips Gabrielle Phillips

Documentation support
Sanderson Bell Sandy Bell
Jessie Pankiw Jessie Pankiw
Andrew Campbell campbellandrewj

Photography Adam Gibson

Dedicated to the late, great Barney Reardon.

Truth Telling at Wybalenna has been published in the most recent ArchitectureAu. In the critique by Architectural Histor...
18/08/2026

Truth Telling at Wybalenna has been published in the most recent ArchitectureAu.

In the critique by Architectural Historian Dr Stuart King Stuart King, the General Manager of Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, Sarah Wilcox writes:

“This is not a conventional project. It is a place of profound cultural and historical significance for Palawa/Tasmanian Aboriginal people, and it also holds national and global importance as a site that speaks to the impacts of colonisation and the enduring strength of our people. Any intervention must be approached with humility, respect and a clear understanding of its role in supporting healing for our community.”

Wybalenna was the site where Australia’s first land rights claim was composed. A masterstroke of political agency, this petition was addressed directly to the British Queen Victoria from The Free Aborigines, Inhabitants of Van Diemens Land.

After 15 years in enforced exile, they wrote:

“We were not taken Prisoners. Mr Robinson made for us and with Colonel Arthur an agreement which we have not lost from our Minds since, and we have made our part of it good.

When we left our own place, we were Plenty of People, we are now but a little one.”

The letter composed at Wybalenna was signed by eight leaders, including Druemerterpunna (King Alexander).

It reached Victoria and she read it. The following year, Wybalenna was closed and 47 survivors were transferred to Putalina | Oyster Cove, where most perished.

The agreement that Druemerterpunna and his kinfolk remembered was a Treaty, which was never honoured by the Colonial Government, nor acknowledged by its successors to this day.

The efforts at Wybalenna, led by Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, seek to edify these Truths. The architecture is an empathetic medium for this intention. Wybalenna calls us to sorry business as a nation, and tells us that we have much work to do.

With thanks to Dr Stuart King and ArchitectureAu.
The review is here: https://architectureau.com/articles/truth-telling-at-wybalenna-ablutions-pavilion-and-homestead-renewal-by-taylor-and-hinds-architects/

Amongst an esteemed shortlist of 15 extraordinary national projects, Truth Telling at Wybalenna has received the Archite...
30/07/2026

Amongst an esteemed shortlist of 15 extraordinary national projects, Truth Telling at Wybalenna has received the ArchitectureAu Award for Social Impact.

Jury citation:

“Truth Telling at Wybalenna is a powerful act of advocacy, care and truth-telling, and a compelling reminder that architecture can enable self-determination. Located at a site of genocide, deep pain, survival and enduring Palawa presence, the work does not seek attention for itself. Instead, it offers something more profound: the practical, symbolic and literal means for community to return, gather, remember, care for and speak truth on Country.

Its achievement lies in the quiet courage of doing what was needed, with care. New bathing and toilet facilities, water systems and renewed homestead interiors address basic human requirements and, in their context, become extraordinary.

The architecture is restrained but never passive. The ablutions structure is carefully sited and materially resolved, holding service and meaning in equal measure. Its openness, durability and effortlessness give weight to everyday acts of care. The homestead renewal is similarly respectful, removing colonial flair so the building can support community use without spectacle or appropriation. The architects understand that erasure is not the answer; honesty is. The impact is tangible and deeply moving.

Elders, families and community can now return to a place where their ancestors endured one of the most painful and shameful chapters in Australia’s history. It is a story that must be told, and can now be told in place, through meaningful dialogue about truth, rights and custodianship, not as abstract ideals, but as lived acts of remembrance, ritual and diplomacy.

The jury recognises this work as an act of immense social and cultural impact. It demonstrates that design can be measured by the healing it makes possible, the voices it amplifies and its capacity to act without ego. At Wybalenna, architecture becomes a vessel for memory, return and justice.”

This work, enacted under the cultural direction of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, is an indescribable privilege.

Special thanks to the Jury.

ArchitectureAu Melbourne School of Design

07/07/2026

At Wybalenna, a deeply sacred place for Palawa, a community-directed project carefully creates space and amenity to support gathering, and honours a powerful story of resistance and resilience.

17/06/2026

Some investments are measured in dollars.
Others are measured in generations.
This EOFY, make your tax-deductible donation count and help us reach $200,000 for Truth-Telling at Wybalenna.
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, significant progress has already been made on this important project. Funds raised to date have helped bring the vision to life, supporting key stages of development and creating strong foundations for truth-telling at one of the most significant places in Palawa history.
But while much has been achieved, there is still so much more to do.
Further work is needed to protect and share our stories, and continue developing Wybalenna as a place of learning, reflection and truth-telling for future generations.
Before 30 June, your tax-deductible donation can help support the next stage of this journey.
Long after the financial year ends, the impact of your contribution can continue.
Help us reach $200,000 and invest in a legacy that will endure for generations to come.
Donate here: https://chuffed.org/project/mx9-truth-telling-at-wybalenna

The penultimate Tasmanian Architecture Medal has been bestowed at the 2026 Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian ...
01/06/2026

The penultimate Tasmanian Architecture Medal has been bestowed at the 2026 Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Architecture Awards for both The Homestead Renewal and Ablutions at Wybalenna.

The Jury Citation reads:

“For too many nations, there is a place where the traumas of history congeal as architecture. For Lutruwita/Tasmania, that place is Wybalenna, site of the colonial internment of Aboriginal Tasmanians – and a genocide.1 Two architectural acts have been made on this haunted ground: an unbuilding and a building. The old Homestead has been unbuilt, its layers of colonial occupation peeled away, disinterring the timber bones and brick flesh of the building. Minimal insertions, made of raw and noble materials, are sleeved into the remnant spaces. This is architecture as excavation, a taking away in order to give back, making space for remembrance, reclamation and reoccupation. The Ablutions, most humble of functions, enacts the counterpoint: building. This simple raised pavilion, built entirely of oxidised steel, has the bearing of a delicate monument. With ochre colour and rounded forms the structure evokes the skin of ancestors adorned by ceremony and ritual. Its precise geometries bear time, like an ancient shell washed up from the depths. Together, these interventions enact a quiet manifesto of architecture’s profound duty and promise. To give the past presence. To make the future tangible. To connect one another. To bear meaning and to heal trauma. They create a new foundation for this sacred place. For all these reasons, the jury awards the Tasmanian Architecture Medal to Taylor & Hinds with the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania for the Homestead and Ablutions at Wybalenna.

1 Wybalenna Aboriginal Mission was explicitly referenced by the Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin during the post-war establishment of the UN Genocide Convention.”

Our special thanks to Manager of , Sarah Wilcox, who attended the awards evening in Nipaluna with us, and our thanks and acknowledgment to the wider Land Council, in particular Chair Greg Brown, previous manager Rebecca Digney and Chair Michael Mansell.

In addition, The Ablutions at Wybalenna has received the COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture at the Australian Insti...
01/06/2026

In addition, The Ablutions at Wybalenna has received the COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture at the Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Architecture Awards.

The Jury citations reads:

“For The Ablutions at Wybalenna, steel is not just a structural and functional choice; it is a medium selected for a symbolic and contextual dialogue. This project receives the Colorbond Steel Award for its exceptional use of material to articulate a narrative of resilience and survival. The choice of oxidising steel throughout serves as a direct, visceral link to the history of the site, where the exiled Palawa, denied their traditional ochre, used mutton fat and rust to maintain their ceremonial obligations. The ex*****on of the pavilion demonstrates technical rigour through its prefabricated assembly and lean, expressive detailing. The rounded steel walls reference circular and curved scarification traditional practices of the Tasmanian Aborigines and cleverly provides cladding, structure, and experience in one. Designed to weather and patinate in harmony with the coastal environment, the structure is designed to endure and be easily maintained. By utilising donated steel to create a structure of such poetic and permanent quality, the project illustrates the power of materiality to tell truths that words often cannot.”

With our deep thanks to Troy Gent , Craig Suter , Rory Wright, and all who donated to realise this outcome.

This work is led by , and it is a great privilege to be able to assist them in realising enduring amenity for the Aboriginal community at Wybalenna.

Sincere thanks also the Jury for this recognition.

The Ablutions at Wybalenna, undertaken for and with The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania , has received the highest r...
01/06/2026

The Ablutions at Wybalenna, undertaken for and with The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania , has received the highest recognition - The Peter Willmott Award for Small Project Architecture - at the Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Architecture Awards.

The Jury Citation reads:

“In a category often defined by clever utility, The Ablutions at Wybalenna transcends its functional brief—to provide basic amenities—by becoming an architectural manifestation of resilience and endurance of the Palawa. Taylor and Hinds have navigated the immense weight of Wybalenna’s history with profound sensitivity, delivering a structure that is both materially meaningful and culturally resonant. Forms reference traditional patterns of circular and curved scarification, whilst the use of oxidising steel echoes the use of ochre; a material denied to the Aborigines exiled at Wybalenna and replaced with mutton fat and rust to maintain their ceremonial obligations. This is architecture as an act of service; it is a pro-bono gift of design and construction that provides a simple function but with extraordinary meaning. The words of the immediate past CEO of Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, Rebecca Digney, express it best:

“To sit with us and hear our stories, and hear people talk openly about things, and then create architecture that breathes life into those feelings and emotions, is incredible to witness. It is like magic.”

To all who have contributed to this work, thank you. Many hands, and hearts have made this possible. Special thanks to , and Craig Suter from Crisp Bros Haywards, Troy Gent and master builder Rory Wright, who worked carefully in delivering this outcome at Wybalenna.

This is a significant chapter of this work and ongoing care, for and led by , for their community and The Old People at Wybalenna.

Our sincere thanks to the Jury.

The last image shows Rrumathapana in ceremonial skin at Wybalenna. Painted by John Skinner Prout in 1845, just before Rrumathapana and his compatriots successfully petitioned Queen Victoria to close Wybalenna.

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