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