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