CAROL PHILLIPS
B.E.S., B.Arch., OAA, MAIBC, AAA, NSAA, FRAIC, LEED AP
Partner, Moriyama Teshima Architects
Carol Phillips is a Partner at Moriyama Teshima Architects (MTA), who are celebrated internationally for inspiring, innovative work. With over 30 years of experience, her leadership at MTA boldly demonstrates the exciting potential of designing for a low carbon future by addressing complex social and climate issues. Carol’s projects have received international awards and are distinguished by the spare but assertive use of materials that bring identity and grace to communities.
Carol’s influence extends beyond her work at MTA to education, serving as visiting instructor and external thesis reviewer at several schools of architecture. As a mentor to up and coming architects, Carol imparts technical knowledge, a sense of creativity, critical thinking, and resilience in students. Carol has taught at post-secondary institutions including Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Waterloo (her alma mater). Carol also sits on design review panels including the Toronto Community Housing Corporation and the City of Markham, as well as advisory panels for the University of Waterloo’s new architectural engineering program and Building Equality in Architecture Toronto (BEAT).
A Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, her design talent and collaborative skills allow her to set or advance the design vision at any phase of a project. Applying her exceptional design leadership to projects of varying building programs, she reinforces the principles of generous, inspiring spaces that serve the public realm.
Carol’s approach to architectural design emphasizes the importance of learning from and integrating into the natural world, demonstrating a unique blend of creative vision with practical environmental ethics. Through her work, she actively contributes to a dialogue on sustainable living, advocating for designs that are not only environmentally responsible but also culturally enriching. This commitment cements her reputation as a leader who envisions a better future for architecture and actively shapes it through innovative design and ethical practice.
B.E.S., B.Arch., OAA, MAIBC, AAA, NSAA, FRAIC, LEED AP
Partner, Moriyama Teshima Architects
Carol Phillips is a Partner at Moriyama Teshima Architects (MTA), who are celebrated internationally for inspiring, innovative work. With over 30 years of experience, her leadership at MTA boldly demonstrates the exciting potential of designing for a low carbon future by addressing complex social and climate issues. Carol’s projects have received international awards and are distinguished by the spare but assertive use of materials that bring identity and grace to communities.
Carol’s influence extends beyond her work at MTA to education, serving as visiting instructor and external thesis reviewer at several schools of architecture. As a mentor to up and coming architects, Carol imparts technical knowledge, a sense of creativity, critical thinking, and resilience in students. Carol has taught at post-secondary institutions including Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Waterloo (her alma mater). Carol also sits on design review panels including the Toronto Community Housing Corporation and the City of Markham, as well as advisory panels for the University of Waterloo’s new architectural engineering program and Building Equality in Architecture Toronto (BEAT).
A Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, her design talent and collaborative skills allow her to set or advance the design vision at any phase of a project. Applying her exceptional design leadership to projects of varying building programs, she reinforces the principles of generous, inspiring spaces that serve the public realm.
Carol’s approach to architectural design emphasizes the importance of learning from and integrating into the natural world, demonstrating a unique blend of creative vision with practical environmental ethics. Through her work, she actively contributes to a dialogue on sustainable living, advocating for designs that are not only environmentally responsible but also culturally enriching. This commitment cements her reputation as a leader who envisions a better future for architecture and actively shapes it through innovative design and ethical practice.
Project Spotlight
LIMBERLOST PLACE
Moriyama Teshima Architects & Acton Ostry Architects
Limberlost Place, a new addition to George Brown College’s Waterfront Campus, is a 10-storey, low-carbon building that features ecological innovation across its entire life cycle. A model for 21st century smart, sustainable, green building innovation throughout the country, the 225,000 SF, net-zero carbon emissions Limberlost Place sets a precedent through its mass timber structural solution. Currently under construction in Toronto, this building is set to achieve the highest levels of municipal targets, well in advance of the 2030 TEDI, TEUI, and GHGI reduction targets.
The future home of George Brown College’s School of Architecture, the large span, beamless structure will enable demising walls to expand and contract, providing flexibility of sizes for a variety of learning spaces. The angled apex of the roof structure speaks to future advancements of tall wood technologies as well as the development of net positive and low carbon building methodologies. The outer bars house classrooms, labs, and administrative offices that look outward towards the Water’s Edge Promenade, Sherbourne Common, and the upcoming School of Design.
The Limberlost Place team is truly working in a collaborative environment where design vision and trades sit at the same table to innovate, sequence, and execute a project with the planet in mind. Once the building is realized and occupied, the inhabitants will be influenced by the visible intuitive operations of the façade, use of renewable materials, and low- and high-tech approaches to sustainability. This will be enabled by design and attention to the placement of social spaces near to and within the spaces where the passive systems and sustainable features are located. By creating these environments and immersive opportunities where in the daily lives of workers, educators, and students there is exposure and value in naturally ventilated, day-lit innovative places, there is the potential to change expectations broadly in communities.
LIMBERLOST PLACE
Moriyama Teshima Architects & Acton Ostry Architects
Limberlost Place, a new addition to George Brown College’s Waterfront Campus, is a 10-storey, low-carbon building that features ecological innovation across its entire life cycle. A model for 21st century smart, sustainable, green building innovation throughout the country, the 225,000 SF, net-zero carbon emissions Limberlost Place sets a precedent through its mass timber structural solution. Currently under construction in Toronto, this building is set to achieve the highest levels of municipal targets, well in advance of the 2030 TEDI, TEUI, and GHGI reduction targets.
The future home of George Brown College’s School of Architecture, the large span, beamless structure will enable demising walls to expand and contract, providing flexibility of sizes for a variety of learning spaces. The angled apex of the roof structure speaks to future advancements of tall wood technologies as well as the development of net positive and low carbon building methodologies. The outer bars house classrooms, labs, and administrative offices that look outward towards the Water’s Edge Promenade, Sherbourne Common, and the upcoming School of Design.
The Limberlost Place team is truly working in a collaborative environment where design vision and trades sit at the same table to innovate, sequence, and execute a project with the planet in mind. Once the building is realized and occupied, the inhabitants will be influenced by the visible intuitive operations of the façade, use of renewable materials, and low- and high-tech approaches to sustainability. This will be enabled by design and attention to the placement of social spaces near to and within the spaces where the passive systems and sustainable features are located. By creating these environments and immersive opportunities where in the daily lives of workers, educators, and students there is exposure and value in naturally ventilated, day-lit innovative places, there is the potential to change expectations broadly in communities.
