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