Moriyama & Teshima Architects is a Toronto-based Canadian architecture firm set up in 1970 as a partnership between Raymond Moriyama and Ted Teshima.
The firm was an outgrowth of Raymond Moriyama Architects and Planners, 1958 to 1970. The practice carried on business at 32 Davenport Road from 1966 until 2011. In December 2011, the firm moved to a new office space located at 117 George Street. Unlike many architecture and planning firms which have a high turnover in staff, Moriyama and Teshima is a close-knit family-like organization. Several well-known associate architects and designers have been with the firm for over 25 years each, including Don Cooper, Anson Finlay, Joni Inouye, Tom Motomochi, John Snell, George Stockton, and David Vickers. The staff has varied between 25 and 35 people at various times, with the two partners, 5 principals and seven associates and supporting staff.
A new partnership arrangement commenced in 1998 as part of the principals' succession planning. The firm brought in Moriyama's two youngest sons, Ajon and Jason, and two architects, Daniel Teramura and Diarmuid Nash, as partners. Raymond and Ted became Partners Emeritus of the firm. The three current partners are Jason Moriyama, Diarmuid Nash and Daniel Teramura.
Moriyama & Teshima Architects have a world-wide reputation for excellence in design. They have designed and won awards for a wide variety of public buildings, as well as innovative urban and rural land use plans in Ontario and elsewhere. These include libraries, watershed plans, parklands, civic centres and squares, university campuses, recreational facilities, schools and corporate learning centres, commercial complexes and museums. The firm has also designed significant Ontario government buildings, such as: the Ontario Science Centre (Don Mills) and Science North (Sudbury); the Goh Ohn Bell at Ontario Place; Ministry of Natural Resources headquarters (Peterborough); and Niagara Parks Commission landscape planning. Moriyama and Teshima were also responsible for the new Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, as well as projects across Canada and in Saudi Arabia, Miami Beach, New Orleans, Chicago and Buffalo.
