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