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