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Raymond Moriyama Born October 11, 1929
Vancouver, British ColumbiaAwards Order of Canada
Order of OntarioWork Practice Moriyama & Teshima Architects Raymond Moriyama, CC, O.Ont (born October 11, 1929) is a Japanese-Canadian architect. He has designed several buildings at Brock University from the 1970s through the latest campus expansion and is the University's former chancellor.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Raymond Moriyama received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto in 1954, and a Master of Architecture degree in civic and town planning from McGill University in 1957.
In 1985, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and promoted to Companion in 2008. He was also awarded the Order of Ontario. In 2009, he was one of nine laureates to receive a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Raymond Moriyama is a founding partner of the Toronto firm, Moriyama & Teshima Architects.
Notable projects
- Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto, (1958)
- Ontario Science Centre, (1964)
- Ottawa Civic Centre, (1968)
- Health Services Building, University of Waterloo, (1968)
- Scarborough Civic Centre, Scarborough, Ontario, (1969)
- Toronto Reference Library, (1973)
- L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute, Scarborough, Ontario, (1973)
- Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute, Scarborough, Ontario, (1976)
- Science North in Sudbury, Ontario, (1980)
- Museum London in London, Ontario, (1980)
- North York Central Library, (1987)
- Ottawa City Hall, (1990)
- Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, (1991)
- Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, (1991)
- John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, The University of Western Ontario, (1993)
- National Museum of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh (1999)) to international acclaim
- Canadian War Museum (2005)
- Nova Scotia Community College Waterfront Campus (with Barrie and Langille Architects)
- Toronto French School - new additions
- Seneca@York in Toronto, Ontario
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Categories:- Raymond Moriyama buildings
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- Living people
- Canadian architects
- Modernist architects
- Canadian university and college chancellors
- Companions of the Order of Canada
- Canadian people of Japanese descent
- McGill University alumni
- Members of the Order of Ontario
- People from Toronto
- People from Vancouver
- University of Toronto alumni
- Modernist architecture in Canada
- Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners
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