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