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