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