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