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.
Ravine House
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
ÏCE at York Centre
383 Sorauren
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Pickering Library
West Don Lands Block 8
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
The Grand at Sky View Parc
St. James Cathedral Centre
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Museum of Contemporary Art
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Harbour Plaza
Escarpment House
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
West Block
Thompson Hotel & Residences
11 Charlotte
Theatre Park
Junction Point
Burnt Barns
The Farm
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
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.
Jury comment (2023 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence) on Don Mills Jamatkhana and Isamili Community Centre
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.
Jury comment (2012 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence) on Pan Am/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village | Canary District
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.
Peter Clewes, a–A Principal, (via The National Post) on the continual work of city-building.