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