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