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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Harbour Plaza
Generations Toronto
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
405 Sherbourne
Museum of Contemporary Art
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
The Well
Escarpment House
Burnt Barns
11 Charlotte
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Junction Point
The Farm
383 Sorauren
Ravine House
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Pickering Library
Maple House at Canary Landing
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Pond Road Student Residence
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
St. James Cathedral Centre
Maple House at Canary Landing
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
1414 Bayview
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
ÏCE at York Centre
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Theatre Park
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.
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.
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.