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