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