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