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