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