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