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