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