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