Thanks for another excellent year! Wishing you and yours the merriest and brightest of holidays, from all of us at Gabriel Mackinnon Lighting Design. We hope to work (and play) with you in 2017! Public Service Announcement: We will be operating with limited staff from December 23rd through January 3rd. We hope you enjoy a little downtime too! We look forward to speaking... Read More
GMLD is proud to announce that four of our projects have won awards from the The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) in 2016, after two wins in 2015. The ICSC Canadian Shopping Centre Awards Program is designed to honour our industry's brightest and best. The program brings information and insight to the entire industry on what it takes to achieve high... Read More
Above is the team cavorting in front of the Ismaili Centre in Toronto – more photos of this project coming soon! We have been honoured to continue to work with all of our clients new and old this past year, and we look forward to delivering more incredible spaces with you in 2016. Best wishes for the happiest of holidays and a prosperous new year from Andrew,... Read More
GMLD is proud to announce that two of our projects have won awards from the The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). The ICSC Canadian Shopping Centre Awards Are Designed To Honour Our Industry’s Brightest And Best. The Awards Bring Information And Insight To The Entire Industry On What It Takes To Achieve High Levels Of Success. The Rideau Centre... Read More
We at GMLD are pleased to announce that another of our long term projects has won an Award of Excellence in the "Urban Infill Low Rise" category of the 2015 Ottawa Urban Design Awards. . GMLD provided full lighting design for front of house spaces and exterior of the the Sir John A. Macdonald Building, collaborating with great teams at NORR and MTBA. GMLD worked on... Read More
Gabriel Mackinnon is honoured to have received an Award of Merit for the lighting design of Les Galeries d’Anjou in Montreal as a part of this year’s cohort of award winners announced in November 2014. The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) is the recognized technical authority on illumination. IES Awards of Merit recognize professionalism, ingenuity, and... Read More
Following many years of being too busy working to update our website, we at Gabriel Mackinnon are excited to unveil our new presence on the web! Thanks to Steve St. Pierre and the fine folks at Maker for their assistance bringing us into the modern age. … Welcome to our new home on the webRead More... Read More
Philip Gabriel | 1939-2014 It is with great sadness that we announce that Phil Gabriel passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 9th, 2014. Diagnosed with lymphoma in April of 2013, and with neuroendocrine cancer the following November, Phil was determined to live fully and enthusiastically until very shortly before his death. He continued to design, educate and travel,... Read More
Phil Gabriel, 1939 - 2014 By Elizabeth Donoff Lighting designer Phil Gabriel passed away on Aug. 9. A great advocate of the profession and of lighting education, his efforts on behalf of the lighting design community will be missed. Trained in architecture and interior design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the early 1960s, Gabriel started his... Read More
Philip Gabriel Interview with principal and founder of lighting design firm Gabriel Mackinnon. By Elizabeth Donoff Having practiced architectural lighting design for more than 40 years, Philip Gabriel hasn’t just witnessed lighting’s evolution, he’s lived it. After working in New York for 10 years, he moved to Ottawa, Canada, and in 1974 established his firm,... Read More