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