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