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