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