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.
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
ÏCE at York Centre
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Theatre Park
St. James Cathedral Centre
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
Ravine House
Maple House at Canary Landing
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Harbour Plaza
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Pond Road Student Residence
Museum of Contemporary Art
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Burnt Barns
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
383 Sorauren
Junction Point
Escarpment House
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Pickering Library
The Farm
Maple House at Canary Landing
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Generations Toronto
11 Charlotte
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
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.
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.