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