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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Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
405 Sherbourne
Harbour Plaza
ÏCE at York Centre
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Maple House at Canary Landing
Theatre Park
383 Sorauren
Burnt Barns
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Generations Toronto
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
The Well
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
11 Charlotte
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
Ravine House
Junction Point
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
The Farm
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
Pickering Library
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Museum of Contemporary Art
1414 Bayview
Escarpment House
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Canadian Chancery Expansion
St. James Cathedral Centre
Maple House at Canary Landing
Pond Road Student Residence
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.
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.