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