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.
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
West Block
Pickering Library
The Farm
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
West Don Lands Block 8
Burnt Barns
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Junction Point
Canadian Chancery Expansion
383 Sorauren
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Harbour Plaza
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pond Road Student Residence
Escarpment House
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
11 Charlotte
St. James Cathedral Centre
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Ravine House
ÏCE at York Centre
Theatre Park
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 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.
A valuable precedent for Canadian architecture – nodding to history while exploring new ground.