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