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