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.
Junction Point
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Pickering Library
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
Generations Toronto
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Escarpment House
Maple House at Canary Landing
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Ravine House
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Theatre Park
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Thompson Hotel & Residences
The Farm
St. James Cathedral Centre
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Museum of Contemporary Art
383 Sorauren
Harbour Plaza
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Burnt Barns
11 Charlotte
ÏCE at York Centre
Pond Road Student Residence
Maple House at Canary Landing
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
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.
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.