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