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
Junction Point
The Well
Generations Toronto
St. James Cathedral Centre
Escarpment House
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
Maple House at Canary Landing
Harbour Plaza
Pickering Library
The Farm
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
405 Sherbourne
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
ÏCE at York Centre
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Ravine House
Theatre Park
Burnt Barns
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Canadian Chancery Expansion
1414 Bayview
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Pond Road Student Residence
11 Charlotte
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Maple House at Canary Landing
383 Sorauren
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
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.
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.