a—A
a—A is a design practice based in Toronto engaged in the act of city building, providing full architectural services across a wide range of contexts, scales and building types—from schools, galleries and cultural centres, to affordable housing and mixed-use developments, to urban parks and civic precincts. We work with clients and collaborators in Canada, the United States, and Europe. We are designers, researchers and urbanists who care about the city, and take care to create spaces that give meaning and invention to the ways we live and work.
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Thompson Hotel & Residences
Museum of Contemporary Art
Junction Point
St. James Cathedral Centre
1414 Bayview
Harbour Plaza
Pickering Library
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Burnt Barns
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Escarpment House
Generations Toronto
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Maple House at Canary Landing
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
383 Sorauren
Maple House at Canary Landing
Ravine House
Pond Road Student Residence
The Farm
The Well
Theatre Park
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
11 Charlotte
405 Sherbourne
ÏCE at York Centre
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
A valuable precedent for Canadian architecture – nodding to history while exploring new ground.
The Canary precinct is sophisticated proof (and a quiet rallying cry) that intelligent cities should renew the currency of the well-crafted ‘block’ as the real medium in which we can grow good neighbourhoods.
A masterful composition of texture and natural light. The delicate building skin adds magic to an otherwise simple and economical building massing. [...] A great contemporary interpretation of Islamic architecture.