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