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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.
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.
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.
This is a sample Project for Illustrative Purposes only.
Jason Moriyama, Ben Feldman
Moriyama Teshima Architects and Shimizu Corporation designed the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo as a symbol of Canada; of the country’s spaciousness and diversity, in a way that would be meaningful to the people of Japan. Despite stringent security requirements, the architectural expression of the embassy conveys a feeling of accessibility and openness, with the symbolic heart of the building being the main entrance on the fourth floor.
Sudbury’s Science North provides an exciting overview of the world of science through the main exhibit building, theatre, and underground tunnel carved through rock. The facility is sited in a fifteen-acre park with a wharf, beach, and outdoor pavilions and the design promulgates the beauty and richness of Northern Ontario’s geology, incorporating the natural forms of the two-billion-year-old Sudbury basin into the architecture.
One of Moriyama Teshima Architects’, the Toronto Reference Library (TRL) has continued to serve a broad-based multi-cultural community for over half a century. Discovery and self-directed learning were the key elements in the design of the TRL, centred on a vast tiered atrium that is bright, airy, and inviting, with a large glass skylight above. A calm and serene space to study within, various features including a small waterfall, ponds, and fountains, were incorporated to serve as a natural security barrier and dampen street noise.
In 1964, MTA received the commission to design the Ontario Science Centre (OSC), developed in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1st, 1867. To maximize visitor engagement in the process of learning, the design of the museum sought to convey the excitement felt by scientists as they break through to new discovery.
