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