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.
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Maple House at Canary Landing
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Museum of Contemporary Art
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
ÏCE at York Centre
383 Sorauren
Harbour Plaza
Maple House at Canary Landing
Thompson Hotel & Residences
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Junction Point
St. James Cathedral Centre
The Farm
Ravine House
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Escarpment House
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Theatre Park
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Pickering Library
Canadian Chancery Expansion
11 Charlotte
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
Burnt Barns
Generations Toronto
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Pond Road Student Residence
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.
A valuable precedent for Canadian architecture – nodding to history while exploring new ground.
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.