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.
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
383 Sorauren
Ravine House
Pond Road Student Residence
The Grand at Sky View Parc
West Don Lands Block 8
11 Charlotte
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Harbour Plaza
Burnt Barns
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
ÏCE at York Centre
Junction Point
The Farm
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Escarpment House
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
West Block
Pickering Library
St. James Cathedral Centre
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
Theatre Park
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.