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