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 and galleries, 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
Theatre Park
Ravine House
The Grand at Sky View Parc
Harbour Plaza
Burnt Barns
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
St. James Cathedral Centre
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
West Don Lands Blocks 3/4/7
383 Sorauren
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Pickering City Centre
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
West Block
Museum of Contemporary Art
West Don Lands Block 8
11 Charlotte
The Farm
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
ÏCE at York Centre
Pond Road Student Residence
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.
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.