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