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