Moriyama Teshima Architects

“The new Rouge National Urban Park (RNUP) Visitor, Learning, and Community Centre, a collaboration between Moriyama Teshima Architects, Six Nations of the Grand River-based Two Row Architect, and Ian Grey Studio, will serve as the park’s primary welcome facility where visitors can learn about Rouge’s natural, cultural, agricultural, and Indigenous heritage. This building will feature an environmentally sustainable design, enhanced accessibility, and significant collaboration with the RNUP First Nations Advisory Circle and community partners.”

The new Honey Bee Research Centre (HBRC) at the University of Guelph, Ontario College of Agriculture will be an iconic, state-of-the-art research and event centre dedicated to honey bee health. Located within the university’s botanical gardens, known as the Guelph Arboretum, the HBRC will be a living lab focused on research, education, discovery, and learning from one of nature’s greatest architects — the honey bees.

The University of Waterloo new Mathematics Building will host research institutes in vital fields such as fintech, data science, and cryptography, and will feature classrooms and collision spaces to encourage interaction. MTA worked with Two Row Architect as an Indigenous co-designer to incorporate appropriately themed elements into the architecture – weaving Indigenous stories, narratives, and design elements along with mathematical concepts.

The Port Campus of NSCAD University is undergoing a transformational revitalization that will optimize space utility, improve building accessibility and sustainability, and help create a rich, positive experience for all members of its academic community.

This highly complex addition project is a four-phase, multi-year renovation of McMaster University’s Life Science Biology (LSB) building, including the integration and addition of a new, 11,400 SF research greenhouse. This new greenhouse will seize the opportunity to reflect McMaster’s leadership in the study and research of science and natural systems in health and wellness, as well as echo its commitment to growth, health, and sustainability.

The South Facility Phase 1 project is a new police facility meant to centralize operations and replace several older facilities that will be decommissioning. The client mandate for the facility was to accommodate a variety of Front Line, Specialized Units, a Communications Centre, administrative offices and special function vehicles in a highly flexible building with 24/7 operations with extensive building services redundancy provisions.

Fathom Studio in a joint venture with Moriyama Teshima Architects, have been selected to design the Awitgati Longhouse and Cultural Centre for Under One Sky, a facility that will celebrate Indigenous peoples and culture while providing community-oriented programming in health, education, arts, culture, and events. Under One Sky is a registered non-profit organization providing programs and services, educating, advocating for, and empowering a healthy and proud Indigenous community.

Moriyama Teshima Architects with Barrie & Langille Architects are currently working together to design a new waterfront campus for the Nova Scotia Community College. The campus is being relocated from its current location to the Sydney waterfront to revitalize the downtown core and accelerate the college’s strategy to expand the physical capacity of the campus.

Moriyama Teshima Architects is the Architect of Record for the Canadian Port of Entry (POE) facilities at the Gordie Howe International Border crossing in Windsor, Ontario, leading the design effort of the consultant team for nine buildings. Once constructed, this will be the largest border crossing along the Canada-US border, and one of the largest in North America.

The purpose of the Parks Canada Collections and Curatorial Centre is to ensure the sustainable, long-term preservation and conservation of the approximately twenty-five million archaeological and historical artifacts which are currently stored in five separate sites across the country. This design, a joint venture between Moriyama Teshima Architects and NFOE Architects, will not only provide modern climate control and protection, but also feature a highly intuitive and engaging archival system for both researchers and the public at large.

The West Memorial Building project is a major rehabilitation of a Classified Federal Heritage Building located in the downtown core of Ottawa. While the long-term use of the building will be for Government of Canada offices, the short-term fit-up is for the Supreme Court of Canada and Court Administration Services. The rehabilitation includes a complete masonry restoration, structural and seismic upgrades throughout, new base building systems and tenant fit-up.

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF/FEESO) New Headquarters and Multi-Tenant Commercial Building, currently under construction along Toronto’s Don Valley ravine, is a progressive, three-storey, mass timber facility, which is a highly sustainable, financially viable, and innovative new workplace that uses net-zero carbon strategies, and targets LEED Platinum certification.

A new heart for Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, the design of Makwa Waakaa’igan Indigenous Centre of Cultural Excellence intends to provide a safe space, welcoming visitors from across the globe to engage with and learn from Indigenous heritage. The architectural design has been articulated through consideration of Indigenous teachings, from building form to material selection.

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Limberlost Place (previously: “The Arbour”), currently under construction at George Brown College’s waterfront campus in Toronto, will stand as a landmark, tall wood, low-carbon building, featuring ecological innovation across its entire life cycle. Already the recipient of numerous accolades and awards commending design and construction innovation, Limberlost Place is on track to achieve the highest levels of municipal targets, well in advance of the 2030 TEDI, TEUI, and GHGI reductions.

The Student and Athletics Centre, designed with Montgomery Sisam Architects, is the latest phase of the Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus Expansion project. Known as Phase 2A, it offers a dynamic series of student-focused spaces that complement the existing academic infrastructure while supporting and reinforcing the recently developed urban design objectives for the Sheridan Campus and the City of Mississauga. 

Place des Arts (PdA) is the first multidisciplinary art centre of its kinds in Northern Ontario; a cultural facility consisting of seven member organizations which stands as an influential site of excellence for Sudbury, focused on French-Canadian culture and community empowerment. Moriyama Teshima Architects and Bélanger Salach Architecture were together able to establish consensus amongst the seven strong voices to achieve a flexible design that provides services for a wide variety of uses and activities.

Inspired by Canadian landscapes and Arabic architectural elements, the Canada Pavilion is a symbolic representation of the strong cultural and economic ties between Canada and the Middle East. A plentiful, sustainable, and rapidly renewable resource, the selection of wood as the primary material expression of the Pavilion conveys an important message about Canada’s commitment to an ecologically minded and sustainable presence on the global stage.

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.