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