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