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The new lighting designed to light the restored Grade A Listed, Ross Fountain in Edinburgh's West Princes Street Gardens utilises low energy, state of the art, waterproof IP68 LED warm white lighting with all spotlights integrated into the fountain structure and submerged within the fountain pools.
As all the lighting is located within the water a beautiful shimmering and pulsing effect is created over the fountain after dark as beams of light project the ripples and waves created by the wind and the splashes of the fountain jets. It is a simple but magical effect.
FOTO-MA is an award winning independent lighting architects practice based in Edinburgh Scotland. The Practice was established in 2001 by architect and lighting designer Gavin Fraser, former Senior Lighting Designer and Team Leader at Speirs and Major Associates.
We specialise in providing a creative, professional, architectural lighting design service, designing lighting that is considered and integral to a range of building types and architectural structures.
Key projects have included being the Lighting Designers for the multi award winning redesign of the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh which is the first complete art gallery project in the UK to be completely re-lit using high end Museum and Gallery quality multi-phosphor warm white LED lighting through out all the gallery spaces. This project recently won a Highly Commended Award in the Public Buildings Category of the National Lighting Awards 2013 as well as winning Scottish Design Awards, RIBA and RIAS, Civic Trust Awards in 2012. The project also won a coveted Carbon Trust Award 2013 which recognises the projects attention to sustainability issues and low energy and energy efficient design.
Our portfolio includes a wide range of lighting design experience including airports, bridges and structures, trading floors, offices, conference centres, hotels, retail centres, theme parks, museum and gallery lighting, exhibitions, leisure, historical restorations, external and corporate lighting.
IALD AWARDS (International Association of Lighting Designers)
Award of Excellence for Lighting Design of Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Gateshead, UK 2002
Award of Merit for Lighting design of Alexander Graham Bell House, British Telecommunications Head Quarters,Edinburgh 2001
Award of Merit for Lighting design of Zollverein Kokerei, Essen, Germany 2000
Special Citation for ‘ Innovative use of Light and Colour’ for Lighting Design of The Tower of Time, Great Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK 1999
Citation for Lighting Design for Merchants Bridge, Manchester, UK1996
UK NATIONAL LIGHTING AWARDS
The Lighting Design Awards 2013(UK)
Highly Commended Award-Public Buildings section for
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery ‘Portrait of a Nation’ Project
The Lighting Design Awards 2003(UK)Highly Commended Award-Public Buildings section for Wolfson Medical School University of Glasgow