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