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