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