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.
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Theatre Park
West Don Lands Block 8
Pond Road Student Residence
West Block
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Canadian Chancery Expansion
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
The Farm
11 Charlotte
Ravine House
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Museum of Contemporary Art
St. James Cathedral Centre
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Junction Point
Burnt Barns
ÏCE at York Centre
Pickering Library
Harbour Plaza
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Escarpment House
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
383 Sorauren
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Pickering Performing Arts 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.
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.