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