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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Cairns Family Health & Bioscience Research Complex
The Well
Fred Kaiser Engineering Building
Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse Adaptive Re-Use
Canadian Chancery Expansion
Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village
405 Sherbourne
Theatre Park
Maple House at Canary Landing
ÏCE at York Centre
Burnt Barns
Pond Road Student Residence
Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre
1414 Bayview
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
The Grand at Sky View Parc
St. James Cathedral Centre
The Farm
Museum of Contemporary Art
Maple House at Canary Landing
Pickering Library
Pickering Performing Arts Centre
383 Sorauren
Generations Toronto
11 Charlotte
Four Seasons Hotel & Residences
Thompson Hotel & Residences
Centre for Civilizations, Cultures & Cities
Ravine House
Harbour Plaza
Pier 27 Phases 1 & 2
Escarpment House
Junction Point
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.
We think something’s done and it’s never done. The interesting thing about cities is that they’re never finished.