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