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