About

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Ariella Kanner

MBA, B.Arch

With over 25 years of experience, Ariella has spent an equal amount of time working in an Architectural Firm as an associate for Young + Wright Architects (2000) and in the corporate world, with both Indigo Books (2007) and Service Inspired Restaurants (2014) as Director of Design and Construction. Having embraced an understanding of how projects are planned within a corporate environment, her project management, and director experienced in both design and construction has been paramount in the successes she's achieved for her clientele.

With the exposure of the corporate process Ariella provides an advantage in engaging retailers on a higher level of expectation, development and execution. Ariella's strengths have always been how construction works with design and as such has benefitted her clients with a design approach that considers the importance of details. With the exposure of working along side exceptional design studios such as Burdifelik, GH+A, Hariri Pontarini, and Fish Agency to name a few, Ariella has produced drawing packages that considers the constructability aspect of the project while still maintaining the vision of the design.

Ariella's past retail work experience includes renovations for Holt Renfew at 50 and 60 Bloor St. including shop with shop concepts for cosmetics, Ralph Lauren and Gucci, Holt Café Restaurant, new Indigo stores, Indigo Kids Department roll out across Canada, American Girl, October's Very Own in both Square One and Chicago, Petvalu with over 100 new retail stores across Canada, Fika Cannabis in 18 locations, 40 stores for Fire and Flower and Metro Canada design team's new store concept engineering.