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