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.
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Burnt Barns
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Junction Point
Escarpment House
Harbour Plaza
ÏCE at York Centre
Pickering Library
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Ravine House
The Farm
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Museum of Contemporary Art
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Pond Road Student Residence
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
383 Sorauren
11 Charlotte
West Don Lands Block 8
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Theatre Park
West Block
St. James Cathedral Centre
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.
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.