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.
Maple House at Canary Landing
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
383 Sorauren
Pickering Library
Maple House at Canary Landing
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
The Farm
Museum of Contemporary Art
Thompson Hotel & Residences
St. James Cathedral Centre
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
11 Charlotte
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
ÏCE at York Centre
Burnt Barns
Generations Toronto
Junction Point
Harbour Plaza
Theatre Park
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Escarpment House
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Ravine House
Pond Road Student Residence
Canadian Chancery Expansion
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.
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.