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Founded in 1998, Terroir now has offices in Hobart and Sydney. The three partners, Gerard Reinmuth, Richard Blythe and Scott Balmforth, strive to combine three components - culture, building and landscape - into one package. Now with 26 people in the studio, the emphasis is placed firmly on collaboration - 'It leads to unexpected outcomes,' they note.
Liverpool Crescent House. Photographer: Ray Joyce
Inspiration
The Liverpool Crescent House in Tasmania is a ‘blunt cube in the landscape’, a simple object that is revealed to have a complex, rich interior. The house has a private core, dark and intimate, which opens up to the spectacular landscape surrounding it through the use of floor-to-ceiling windows, roof-lights and slots.
Innovation
The Tasmanian landscape - 'where the directors spent their youth' – has proved particularly inspirational over the years. In addition, they cite Steve Holl, Carlo Scarpa, Zaha Hadid and Luigi Snozzi as being formative influences: ‘They have opened up possibilities for us in the relationship between architecture and place.’ The works of Gregory Crewdson, Edward Burtynsky, Edvard Munch and Björk also get a nod, as well as objects which exhibit the ‘contemporary tendency to blankness’.
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