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