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