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