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