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