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