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