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