Terroir (company)

Terroir is an Australian architecture firm, founded in 1998 by Richard Blythe, a Professor in Architecture and Head of School of Architecture and Design at RMIT, Gerard Reinmuth, and Scott Balmforth. The firm's Hobart office was founded by Blythe and Balmforth, and the Sydney office by Blythe and Reinmuth. TERROIR has offices in Sydney, Hobart, and Copenhagen.
Works
TERROIR's works include:
* Peppermint Bay, Tasmania (2002), a tourism venture on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.
* A redevelopment of 86-88 George St, The Rocks, Sydney, the first State heritage building to be awarded a 5-star Green Star rating.
* Commonwealth Place kiosks, which was featured on the cover of the Architectural Review Australia no. 105.
* Burnie Makers' Workshop in Burnie, Tasmania, which was featured on the cover of Architectural Review Australia no.114, and in the online journal Australian Design Review.
Media
In August 2007 DAB Documents, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) published Terroir: Cosmopolitan Ground, edited by Balmforth and Reinmuth.
TERROIR was included in the 2008 and 2012 Venice Biennale, and was selected to be creative directors of the Australian Institute of Architects 2009 annual conference, entitled Parallax, held in Melbourne.
Terroir's practice is featured in two books published in 2019 by Uro Publications. Terroir: Instruments explores how architecture can connect people with place both physically (through choreography) and psycho-spatially (through wonder). Terroir: Third Spaces focuses on the tension between public and private space.

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