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