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