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