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