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 and galleries, 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.
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
383 Sorauren
St. James Cathedral Centre
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Ravine House
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Pickering Library
Pond Road Student Residence
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
West Block
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Ismaili Centre & Jamatkhana of Don Mills
ÏCE at York Centre
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Theatre Park
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Harbour Plaza
West Don Lands Block 8
Junction Point
Burnt Barns
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
The Farm
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Museum of Contemporary Art
11 Charlotte
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.
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.