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.
383 Sorauren
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Canadian Chancery Expansion
St. James Cathedral Centre
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Theatre Park
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
ÏCE at York Centre
Generations Toronto
Museum of Contemporary Art
Maple House at Canary Landing
Pond Road Student Residence
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
The Farm
Escarpment House
11 Charlotte
Harbour Plaza
Maple House at Canary Landing
Pickering Library
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Burnt Barns
Junction Point
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Ravine House
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
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.
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.