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