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