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