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