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