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