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.
Pond Road Student Residence
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Harbour Plaza
The Farm
West Don Lands Block 8
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Burnt Barns
Pickering Library
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
11 Charlotte
Theatre Park
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Ravine House
383 Sorauren
St. James Cathedral Centre
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Escarpment House
ÏCE at York Centre
Junction Point
The Grand at Sky View Parc
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
West Block
A valuable precedent for Canadian architecture – nodding to history while exploring new ground.
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.