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