Moriyama Teshima Architects

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 seizes the opportunity to reflect McMaster’s leadership in the study and research of science and natural systems in health and wellness, as well as echos its commitment to growth, health, and sustainability.

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

“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 (Math4) 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.

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 HMC Student 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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

Founded in Halifax in 1802, Saint Mary’s University is the second oldest English-speaking University in Canada. The Entrepreneurship Centre (then called, the “North East Campus Project”) is a landmark academic building and campus gateway; the project aims to advance a culture of collaboration and partnership for the university’s renowned institutes for business development and language training. 

Protecting, respecting and enhancing the Rideau Canal and River is a fundamental municipal, provincial and national priority. The Carleton University Campus is quite literally framed by these two waterways – the Canal along the east and north edges, and the River to the south.

The tremendous success of Phase 1 of the New Waterfront Campus at Nova Scotia Community College led to the commission of Phase 2, which involves the Centre for the Built Environment (CBE). This building brings together engineering students, faculty, and industry partners in a collaborative and experiential environment. 

Overlooking the Rideau Canal, Carleton University’s Canal Building is home to some of the school’s most distinguished engineering programs. Supporting the university’s education, research, and partnership objectives are advanced laboratory facilities. Appropriate to its high-tech mandate, the Canal Building is certified 5/5 Green Globes, equivalent to LEED Platinum sustainability level, and has been lauded by Carleton Engineering Dean as one of the smartest buildings in North America.

Cape Breton University’s Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment is a commercially focused contractible research, development and demonstration service provider for Clean Tech Solutions. The Centre was established to find innovative and sustainable solutions to energy and environmental issues and is uniquely positioned to address these challenges.

The first building on Lakehead University’s new 85-acre Orillia LEED Platinum Campus, the Academic Building set a strong precedent for all future development. A focus on “Future Proof” design, the integration of architecture, landscape, and building systems, and achieving high sustainability metrics is what guided this project. The central Learning Commons is an open, airy, and welcoming space which attracts students and promotes social interaction and collaboration. 

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.

Located in downtown Ottawa, this gateway project is the home of the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management and the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Desmarais Building sets a new standard in architectural excellence, reflecting the University’s overall commitment to creating better quality learning environments for students.

An institution with a long and distinguished history, Hillfield Strathallan College called upon Moriyama Teshima Architects to champion a new vision for a unified campus. The Michael DeGroote Senior School provides a student-centred facility that forms a new green heart for the campus through connections to the existing buildings.

Toronto Metropolitan University’s George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre serves 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students in engineering programs. To support TMU’s rapidly growing education and research mandate, the Vari Centre includes state-of-the-art specialized facilities for student learning and research. 

Located on the York University campus, the Technology Enhanced Learning Building (TEL) is operated jointly by Seneca College and York. One of Ontario’s largest facilities for academic collaboration between a university and college, it houses 2,000 York and 2,000 Seneca students. This five-storey building reads as a series interlocking rectilinear volumes, highlighted by a textural mix of cladding choices that respect the surrounding architectural qualities seen on campus. 

A vibrant hub of social and cultural life on campus, the McMaster University Student Centre physically integrates two significant heritage buildings: the 1930 University Hall and the 1965 Gilmour Hall. A three-level atrium with a glass roof forms the building’s central dining room and gathering area; within this bright, airy space a green canopy of indoor trees shelters the seating below and establishes strong connections to nature.

The Walker Health & Fitness Centre is one of seven buildings that Moriyama Teshima Architects has designed at Brock University. The facility is connected to the South Academic Block; both buildings have large expanses of glass to admit natural light and to welcome potential users from the university and the community at large.