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.
Maple House at Canary Landing
Escarpment House
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Maple House at Canary Landing
Junction Point
Harbour Plaza
Theatre Park
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Ravine House
11 Charlotte
St. James Cathedral Centre
Pond Road Student Residence
The Farm
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Burnt Barns
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
Pickering Library
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
ÏCE at York Centre
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Generations Toronto
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Thompson Hotel & Residences
383 Sorauren
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.
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.