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