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