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