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