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