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.
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pickering Library
Theatre Park
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Canadian Chancery Expansion
ÏCE at York Centre
Burnt Barns
Pond Road Student Residence
Junction Point
Escarpment House
Ravine House
West Don Lands Block 8
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
St. James Cathedral Centre
The Farm
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
West Block
11 Charlotte
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
383 Sorauren
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Harbour Plaza
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
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.