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 (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.

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 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.

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.