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