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