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