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