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