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