Taylor and Hinds Architects

07/04/2026

The Homestead at Wybalenna, first phase of remediation completed under the auspices of The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. For decades, a difficult space for Palawa to occupy, with an unwelcoming spirit. Dust. No water, no services, sharp light.

With nearly no resources other than unending good will, the interiors have been returned to the material reality that was hewn from the actual place. We tried to see it as a kind of empathic process of dialogue with the fabric, and its memory. That the architecture can uncover the truth of things, and the anxiety of surfaces stripped. Almost as if to seek the material being of Country, what Palawa call milaythina. To return the homestead interiors to a living tectonic tradition of Palawa making.

Elements were found, repurposed, or yielded through acts of generosity. Now the light is balanced and needs are ‘seen’, and held. Elders and their community are returning to use the Homestead. That is a wonder in itself.

Such a seemingly small shift in the fabric raises large questions, about the nature of cultural heritage, and where that cultural heritage actually resides. ‘I am that cultural heritage,’ a Palawa Elder told us ‘That cultural heritage is in me. It is expressed in the togetherness of my people with the spirits of our Ancestors, on our Land.’


b: Legacy Structures - Forrest Whitten and Uwe Fieste
p: .gibson.photo

07/04/2026

Liverpool Street

05/04/2026

The Ablutions at Wybalenna

Completed 2025, for The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania

14/03/2026

A privilege to be entrusted in this effort with The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania.

Members of the Aboriginal community in Tasmania have gathered at Wybalenna on Flinders Island to see the work that's been done on a recent restoration projec...

23/02/2026

A very special day.

Excellent, emotional speeches by Palawa to recognise and celebrate ongoing Truth Telling efforts at Wybalenna, including The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, Nunami Sculthorpe-Green, Uncle Rodney Gibbins, Aunty Lillian Wheatley, and family of Aunty Ida West.

Thanks to Bridget Archer and Jess Teesdale for attending. Special recognition for Vica Bayley MP and Steph Cahalan who were there for days helping to set everything up, and who have both been a sustaining presence.

We were also asked to speak. Our contribution is included in the post.

11/02/2026

Liverpool Street WIP.

These maisonettes are located at the rear of Luke Burgess’ .c.h.o.l.e, sleeved inside the original coffin making workshops that operated at the site for over 100 years.

Excellent efforts by the team at , in particular Perry and Mick.

21/01/2026

In our ongoing architectural support for the led Truth Telling at Wybalenna, we are privileged to witness many acts of humanity by others. Of people gently, quietly, committing their care and support to this extraordinary, and Nationally important effort.

Deep thanks to , who have pledged a $30,000 donation to ongoing restoration and remedial works at the Wybalenna Homestead, as part of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania led efforts for Truth Telling at Wybalenna.

In correspondence to ALCT, Brickworks Building Products Tasmanian Business Manager Matthew Gordon, wrote:

“Wybalenna’s significance continues to be recognised through the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania’s leadership and the culturally grounded Architectural and landscape work
undertaken in recent years.

Publicly available documentation, including the master planning and interpretive studies developed by Taylor and Hinds Architects, has contributed to broader national understanding of Wybalenna as a place of profound historical trauma, cultural endurance, and continuing community stewardship. This work has reinforced the importance of restoring the landscape, honouring history, and supporting ALCT’s long-term vision for healing, cultural governance, and renewal.

Brickworks recognises the extraordinary work already undertaken by the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, and acknowledges the role of Architectural and cultural studies in supporting the ongoing care of this site.

We also recognise the extensive work still required to repair the landscape, strengthen community connections, and ensure that the history and significance of Wybalenna are honoured with dignity and care.”

Sincere, heartfelt gratitude for this support, . 🙏🏼

To those who are able to donate, please see the link in bio.

1. Wybalenna Homestead
2. The ruins of the brick barracks and cells, where The Old People were held. c1892 (40 years after closure).
3. The Brick floors of the cells exposed in 1969, 30 years before Wybalenna’s return to the Aboriginal community.
4. An ochre grinding stone on the excavated bricks floors.
5-9. Existing images of the ongoing renewal.

03/11/2025

A public talk on the traditions and possible futures of Urban Swimming in Timtumili Minanya | The River Derwent, as part of the program, this Saturday 8th at 2pm, at the Brickworks Design Studio - 7-9 Franklin Wharf.

All welcome.

30/10/2025

“The relationship between contextual integrity and community sanctioning is often misapprehended in the procurement of public projects on this island. When civic sites are engaged at this scale, the urban approach requires unassailable spatial testing and community support, not the government’s tin ear. Without more vociferous architectural or urban influence over spatial policy in Tasmania, the integrity of determining where civic infrastructure should be proposed will always be in question. Architectural and urban quality will certainly not manifest because lawyers and politicians try to post-justify the wrong choice of site with hyperbole.”

Whether or not the Tasmanian government’s widely condemned, extravagantly costly plan for a Macquarie Point stadium comes to pass, it has exposed something deeply wrong with how the state treats its urban fabric.

15/10/2025

Scholé has been elevated in the 2025 Australian Good Design Awards as a Gold Winner, in the Built Environment (Interior Design) category.

Jury Comments:

“Scholé is a catalytic element for the larger remediation of the original coffin-making workshops in Liverpool Street, Hobart. Scholé is a lovingly crafted space with textural, visual and aromatic touches for a rich spatial experience that is both intimate and yet engaged with the wider precinct - hopefully a catalyst for ongoing renewal of the workshops that it promises to be. This project is beautiful, well designed, well considered and responsible - socially and environmentally. This project truly sets a new benchmark for design excellence. Well done.”

Commissioned by:
Luke Burgess
Barney Reardon and Sharon Westbury
Michael and Rachel Lane

Carefully built by , and the patient, precise hands of Perry Lane, leading an excellent team of dedicated contractors.

Structural, Civil and Hydraulic Engineering: Aldanmark Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd
Services Engineering:
Heritage support: .architecture
Town planning advice and guidance:
Accessibility: Michael Small at Equality Building
Fire Engineering:

Thanks to all who have supported and participated in this recognition.

About the Australian Good Design Awards:

The Awards recognise design excellence from around the world, across 13 Design Disciplines and more than 35 categories, spanning the built environment, product design, engineering, digital, social impact, policy design and many more categories.

Each entry undergoes a rigorous evaluation by over 80 international Jurors, assessed against three core criteria: Good Design, Design Innovation, and Design Impact.

With a proud heritage dating back to 1958, the Australian Good Design Awards remain the nation’s oldest and most prestigious international design accolade, continuing to champion the critical role of design in shaping a brighter, fairer, and more sustainable future.

With our special thanks to and the Awards Jury.

c.h.o.l.e

13/10/2025

Truth telling efforts at Wybalenna, under the direction of The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania , have been included in the recently published dossier AA 466th issue – ‘Colonialities’.

In an introductory essay entitled ‘Poétique du divers | Poetics of Diversity’, editors Clémentine Roland et Anastasia de Villepin write:

“We have chosen to highlight testimonies – whether memorial or identity-based – from those who are active agents of their own histories. In so doing, we trace what the academic Mame-Fatou Niang and the writer Julien Suaudeau describe as a ‘postcolonial universalism’– a ‘humanism commensurate with the world,’ in contrast to classical universalism, ‘at once a forgery and an instrument of conquest, the weapon of crime and the river into which it is cast.’

The practices presented in this dossier demonstrate that while challenging colonialism has always involved ‘red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives’,3 encounters with alterity need not unfold through violence or omission. Moving beyond coloniality is not merely revisiting a past that refuses to pass: it requires choosing new forms of relation, in which power no longer flows from a centre to its margins, but where knowledge circulates, is negotiated, shared, and interwoven.”

Link in bio to access AA #466 - ‘Colonialities’