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