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