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