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