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