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