Moriyama Teshima Architects

Moriyama Teshima Architects were hired by Conrad Grebel University College for the expansion and renovation of the existing food service facilities, including a new kitchen and dining room. Communal dining is a central feature of the Conrad Grebel experience, and unique to the University of Waterloo Colleges, as all the food is made on-site. The design ensured that the new and renovated spaces were integrated well with the existing atrium, patio, walkways, chapel foyer, and any future expansions in the building.

A sensitively renovated campus facility, a retrofit of the historically listed William G. Davis Building, offers UTM students a newly refreshed area for studying, gathering, and dining. Changes were made throughout both the exterior and interior of the building, improving lighting quality, accessibility standards, space planning, and circulation. To accommodate UTM’s aggressive population growth, a refreshed cafeteria and eatery was designed, providing a place for the community to dine, meet with colleagues, study, or lounge during breaks.

Moriyama Teshima Architects in association with Barrie & Langille Architects executed the Brian Mulroney Institute of Governance, Mulroney Hall. This institute is dedicated to the study of government, Canada-U.S. relations, and global affairs for undergraduates.

Completed in association with Gow Hastings Architects, the North Campus Expansion project expanded Conestoga College’s north campus in Waterloo with a 4-storey addition to the south side of a former secondary school which was acquired by Conestoga in 2006. The building houses construction and culinary trades programs, including the Centre for Food Innovation and Hospitality Management. 

Overlooking the Ottawa River, Phase 1 of the Visitor Welcome Centre is the first new major addition on Parliament Hill in almost a century and creates the new front door for all visitors to the Parliamentary Precinct. The project establishes a secure public entry to the buildings on Parliament Hill and preserves the integrity and openness of the public green on Canada’s most important heritage site.

The UBCO Commons fulfills critical student needs for UBCO’s expanding campus. Directly affiliated with the Library, the new Commons includes the largest Lecture Theatre on campus, Digital Technology Centre, a study and informal learning commons, academic building. Setting the tone for the rest of the campus, the Commons explores strategies for seasonal design, increased legibility of campus organization, and vibrant, memorable spaces. 

Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Urban Innovation is a facility where science research labs, fabrication, incubation, assembly spaces, and commercial spaces come together to create real world applications for the urgent urban issues of our time — energy, water, and nutrition. An addition to an existing heritage building, the project embodies the spirit of resilience and adaptive reuse by preserving the original structure and inserting two major volumes that house lab functions and a research facility.

Located between Lake Ontario and Lakeshore Boulevard, and within the historic grounds of Colonel Samuel Smith Park, the Holy Trinity Catholic School is designed for 536 students from junior kindergarten through eighth grade. The school is bordered by a scenic hundred-year-old heritage apple orchard, as well as Humber College’s new academic facilities. 

Together with Architecttura Inc., Moriyama Teshima Architects delivered a beautiful building to the City of Windsor that is efficient, transparent, functional, customer service oriented, sustainable, and cost-effective. Standing in the parking lot directly behind the existing City Hall and adjacent to the waterfront park, the 107,000 SF City Hall is central to the new civic square which will additionally include development from the University of Windsor, St. Clair College, as well as cultural and recreational facilities. 

The Etihad Museum honours the 1971 signing of the document that created the United Arab Emirates and celebrates the rich culture and history of its people. The dramatic entrance pavilion rests lightly upon a reflecting pool and plaza, its undulating parabolic curves representing the parchment upon which the unification agreement was written and its tapering golden columns representing the pens with which the document was signed.

The HMC2 is the second building designed for Sheridan’s Mississauga Creative Campus by Moriyama Teshima Architects and Montgomery Sisam Architects. Housing Sheridan’s Sustainable Built Environment Department, consisting of Architecture, Interior Design, Interior Decorating and Visual Merchandizing programs, the project contributes to Sheridan’s ambitious urban design vision that aims to densify and energize Mississauga’s downtown core. 

Certified LEED Gold, Canon Canada’s new headquarters in Brampton, Ontario, demonstrates a creative approach to sustainability and design while promoting employees’ healthy lifestyle. The strategic placement of the building on the site was key to ensuring the client’s vision for a “building within a park”, allowing generous views and connections to nature. The building’s interiors balance privacy and collegiality in an open and serene environment.

The Discovery Centre transformed a former power station into a cultural attraction on the Halifax waterfront. The creation of thematic indoor and outdoor installations that are both interactive and sculptural, emphasize the Centre’s connection to the Maritimes, adding vitality to the harbourfront with its programming, permanent galleries, immersive dome theatre, traveling exhibits, and special events. 

Nested between two existing buildings at the Northwestern edge of Humber’s Lakeshore Campus, the Athletic Centre is the first Humber project that people see as they travel eastbound on the busy thoroughfare. The building’s façade is animated by vertical sunscreen fins, whose dynamic arrangements produce kinetic optical effects when viewed from passing traffic. 

Set within Colonel Samuel Smith Park, a historic agricultural parkland on the shores of Lake Ontario, Humber College’s Lakeshore campus was once largely hidden behind a dense grove of mature trees. The new Welcome Centre provides a stunning new public face as a high-visible landmark gateway, providing an accessible focal gathering place for students and the public.

Building ‘G’ at Humber College is the last of the historic cottages to be restored on the distinctive Lakeshore Campus. Moriyama Teshima Architects worked in collaboration with Humber College to transform the heritage Administration Building of the former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital into a vibrant hub that cultivates relationships between students and industry professionals. 

Moriyama Teshima Architects completed the reconfiguration and reconstruction of the Canadian Hall within the Museum of History, including the addition of a new mezzanine, new ramps, and stairs for visitor circulation and exiting, and the careful relocation and protection of St. Onuphrius Church, a large historic artifact that was re-incorporated into the new gallery sequence. This work had to be very carefully planned and executed within the fully occupied building, prioritizing not only patron and staff safety, but also the protection of the collection. 

This 19,300 SF expansion to an existing elementary school capitalized upon an unusually wide, shallow site constrained by a major traffic artery and a steeply rising, two-storey embankment. In response, Moriyama Teshima Architects embedded a long, linear classroom wing lengthwise into the slope, preserving the limited amount of play space on level ground while adding eight new classrooms, an art, science, and wood shop suite, and new daycare facilities. 

Dalhousie University’s Collaborative Health Education Building (CHEB) is designed to support a truly interdisciplinary approach to health education, where students of medicine, pharmacy, nursing and related professions will “learn with, from and about one another” in collaborative healthcare teams. Facilitating this peer-to-peer learning process are interior spaces that encourage and support social interaction and informal collaboration, including a health science learning commons, clinical simulation laboratories, and active learning classrooms with movable seating for impromptu group and individual study. 

The Trinity College School campus is made up of historic neo-gothic brick and stone buildings dating from the late 1800s, woven together with buildings built throughout the 1900s. Complementing this architecture, the primary goal of the Learning Commons Project was to create a space that supports and encourages multiple learning styles: social learning, individual study, group study, group projects, one-on-one guidance, and classroom instruction.