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