architects—Alliance is responsible for award-winning buildings and public spaces that reflect an approach to architecture and urbanism that is, in equal measure, progressive and pragmatic; conscious of context and profoundly modern. aA’s design philosophy expresses a deep understanding of how architecture helps to shape the city, and a lasting engagement with the ways in which aA buildings are shaped, in turn, by the people who live and work in them.

Since its founding in 1999, aA’s ability to think and work at a variety of scales and across a diversity of typologies – multi-unit market and affordable housing, hotels, commercial buildings, academic labs and research buildings – has been demonstrated in cities across Canada and the United States.

From our studio in downtown Toronto, aA’s staff of 70 has produced more than $9 billion in built projects. The firm’s current projects are valued at C$4.3 billion, with over $3.1 billion in the planning and design phase.