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.
Burnt Barns
Ravine House
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Harbour Plaza
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Canadian Chancery Expansion
St. James Cathedral Centre
Theatre Park
Escarpment House
The Grand at Sky View Parc
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Museum of Contemporary Art
West Don Lands Block 8
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
11 Charlotte
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Pond Road Student Residence
ÏCE at York Centre
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
383 Sorauren
West Block
The Farm
Junction Point
Pickering Library
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.
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.