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