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