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