Toronto Public Library - Toronto Reference Library

This guide to the Toronto Reference Library follows architect Raymond Moriyama from a childhood spent building a hidden treehouse at a Japanese Canadian internment camp during the Second World War, to the day the same government that interned his family came calling to hire him. It traces how that early act of building shaped this soaring five-storey atrium, filled with plants and trickling water, modeled on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.