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.
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St. James Cathedral Centre
11 Charlotte
Pickering Library
ÏCE at York Centre
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Junction Point
Generations Toronto
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Escarpment House
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Theatre Park
Burnt Barns
Thompson Hotel & Residences
383 Sorauren
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Harbour Plaza
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
The Farm
Maple House at Canary Landing
1414 Bayview
The Well
Pond Road Student Residence
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ravine House
405 Sherbourne
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Maple House at Canary Landing
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
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.