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