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