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