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