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