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