Gordon Purves Associates (GPA) is a Toronto-based retail design and communications firm. Due to our broad planning and architecture expertise, we are able to provide our clients a wide range of services.

We develop individual design solutions based on the needs of each client. Our design solutions are unique because we take into account a client's unique problems, business categories, marketing strategies, customer needs and perceptions, and cultures where their business operates.

Our corporate philosophy is to bring our client's identity and image with the appropriate passion, clarity and conviction to the marketplace.

Past and present clients include home centers, hardware stores, supermarkets and fast food outlets, jewelry stores and pharmacies.

Gordon Purves - President Gordon Purves has over thirty years of experience in the design field. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, he pursued an architectural career with a variety of projects including restoration of historic buildings and commercial development. He continued his architectural career in Canada upon his arrival in the late 1960's. For the last 15 years, he has focused on the retail field and has built up considerable experience with successful projects in Canada, USA, Mexico, South America and the Caribbean.