Moriyama Teshima Architects

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

This major expansion and renovation doubled the size of the West District Library, the second-highest circulating branch in the Ottawa Public Library system, and created welcoming, engaging, light–filled and technology-enabled public spaces. The two-storey addition established a far more substantial visual presence for the library, welcoming patrons with a transparent facade of floor-to-ceiling glass and an entrance terrace with seating areas and naturalized gardens. 

A major expansion of the former Kaneff Centre, the Innovation Complex is a new gateway to the University of Toronto Mississauga campus, an incubator for industry partnerships and a multifunctional hub of academic, administrative, and social activity. The focal point of this dynamic synergy is the Rotunda, an open and airy circular atrium created at the heart of the building.

The St. George Campus of the University of Toronto, is a uniquely rich architectural precinct, with some of the city’s most celebrated buildings, superbly sited within a complex network of stunning indoor and outdoor learning spaces. The Goldring Student Centre at Victoria University within UofT is a renovation and addition to Eric Arthur’s Wymilwood Building.

The major renovation and expansion of the Toronto French School integrates an all-new athletics complex, event space, and student lounge into a sensitive heritage rehabilitation of the 1923 Sir Clifford Sifton estate. Stepping down a dramatic slope overlooking the forested Don Valley Ravine, the Athletics Complex includes a 25-metre pool for competitive swimming in addition to a divisible double gymnasium with retractable bleachers, a multipurpose exercise and dance studio, and facilities for aerobic and weight training.

To create the Guelph Civic Administration Complex, Moriyama Teshima Architects and heritage architects Goldsmith Borgal renovated and physically integrated two important historical structures: the 1856 Guelph City Hall, a national historic site expanded as the City’s courthouse, and the 1900 Winter Fair Building, incorporated into the new Civic Administration Centre and council chambers. The City Hall is a National Historic Site and a provincially-designated heritage property, and was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by William Thomas, architect of Toronto’s first City Hall.

The Science Research Building at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus defines the school’s inter-and multi-disciplinary approach to scientific education, bringing together a number of science disciplines. This creates a dynamic synergy that reinforces the university’s cutting edge thinking on forward-thinking scholarship.

The Noor Cultural Centre (previously the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre) was conceived by the members of the community after the Second World War when the wounds of Japanese Canadians were beginning to heal after years of internment. Time had come for the community to re-enter Canadian life and take its place within the cultural mosaic – its proportion and fine detail serve as gentle reminders of connections to the past and to Japan.