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Corporate Visitors Centre

Posted by GM Admin September 20, 2022
Note - our client for this project prefers to remain unnamed however we have been granted permission to promote the project anonymously. New to our portfolio - a collaboration with Origin Studios and Kubik Maltbie, GMLD provided lighting design for a private exhibit space for our client, a family-owned company with a long history of innovation. The corporate history center... Read More

Halifax Citadel Heritage Centre

Posted by GM Admin July 7, 2022
New in the portfolio! Check out some photos of our exhibit project at the Halifax Citadel, that opened May 7, 2022 in beautiful Halifax Nova Scotia. A collaboration with our friends and neighbours at Origin Studios and Parks Canada, the 6500 sf exhibit is a dynamic combination of traditional and interactive story telling. The Halifax Citadel is an icon in the city and one of... Read More

See the Royal Alberta Museum in our Portfolio!

Posted by GM Admin March 9, 2020
We have (finally) added our Royal Alberta Museum project to our portfolio. Check it out here! We are proud of another successful collaboration with our talented friends at DIALOG in Edmonton. The project received LEED Gold Certification and opened to the public in 2018. Our scope was the entire front of house and exterior, as well as selected exhibits and office... Read More

Visitor’s Welcome Centre – Added to the Portfolio!

Posted by GM Admin November 8, 2019
We have added another new parliamentary precinct project to our portfolio - this one many years in the making. This past fall, we completed the Government of Canada - Visitor's Welcome Centre with our esteemed colleagues (and neighbours) at Moriyama & Teshima. This project was completed as apart of the larger exercise of renovating the Centre Block and is the first... Read More

Three new GMLD projects featured in Canadian Architect

Posted by Danielle March 20, 2019
We at Gabriel Mackinnon Lighting Design are extra pleased this past month to see three of our long term projects completed and featured in the March 2019 issue of Canadian Architect! We have been working on the architectural lighting design for these three projects in Ottawa's Parliamentary Precinct for (so very) many years and are thrilled to see them completed. The West... Read More

Did you know we Metro?

Posted by GM Admin February 14, 2018
Gabriel Mackinnon has been proud to work with Metro Inc. developing retail lighting design standards and implementing them on over 100 of their grocery stores around Ontario over the past 5 years. As you may guess, this has kept us very busy, so just now are we getting to sharing some information about it! Gabriel Mackinnon developed a family of retail lighting design... Read More

Burgoyne Bridge Receives 3 Awards

Posted by GM Admin November 14, 2017
We are pleased to announce that the Burgoyne Bridge has received 3 CISC (Canadian Institute of Steel Construction) Awards of Excellence! Gabriel Mackinnon illuminated the Burgoyne Bridge,  a 7 span, 333 meter highway bridge across the Niagara River near St. Catherine's. The project was completed in 2016, with Parsons (formerly Delcan) and many of the same team members with... Read More
New in our portfolio, images of our work on CF Rideau Centre, which completed an extensive renovation and expansion last year. GMLD was pleased to continue our work defending lighting for our long time client Cadillac Fairview, and even more so than usual as we were re-renovating a project after decades of use, and because CF Rideau Centre is in our proverbial backyard,... Read More

Les Promenades St-Bruno added to portfolio

Posted by GM Admin October 18, 2017
We are happy to announce the addition of a project to our portfolio, Les Promenades St Bruno shopping centre in St-Bruno Quebec. You can see some background on the project and lighting design on our Promenades St Bruno portfolio page. The project was beautifully photographed by Yves... Read More

GMLD project featured on Philips Lighting website

Posted by GM Admin March 29, 2017
GMLD was pleasantly surprised to see one of our projects gracing the front page of Philips Lighting today! Waterpark Place III is an office tower in downtown Toronto that GMLD completed in 2015, along with GH+A and... Read More