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