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
West Block
Ravine House
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Pond Road Student Residence
Harbour Plaza
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
St. James Cathedral Centre
Junction Point
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
11 Charlotte
Theatre Park
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Escarpment House
West Don Lands Block 8
383 Sorauren
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Pickering Library
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
ÏCE at York Centre
The Farm
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.
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.