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