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