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