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