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