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.
Burnt Barns
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Ravine House
11 Charlotte
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Harbour Plaza
Pond Road Student Residence
Thompson Hotel & Residences
383 Sorauren
West Don Lands Block 8
Pickering Library
Escarpment House
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Theatre Park
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Canadian Chancery Expansion
West Block
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
The Farm
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
St. James Cathedral Centre
Junction Point
ÏCE at York Centre
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.
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.