Mark Hopton MBA Dip Arch BArch RIBA ARIAS FSA Scot
Partner
Mark Hopton joined Law and Dunbar-Nasmith Architects in 1988 immediately after completing his architectural studies at Edinburgh College of Art where at that time Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith was Professor of Architecture. In January 1996 he was appointed as an Associate within the Practice and in January 1999 became a Partner.
During his time with LDN he has worked almost exclusively on projects involving the careful conservation and revitalisation of historic buildings and for two years worked on site as resident site architect and contract administrator responsible for the multi-million pound restoration of Balnagown Castle.
In recent years he has led the Design Teams responsible for a number of successful major conservation projects involving Category A Listed buildings including the preparation of a redevelopment plan for Parliament House, seat of the Supreme Courts in Scotland, and implementation of its first phase, and the twelve-year restoration and redevelopment of Category A Listed Stanley Mills, near Perth, for Historic Scotland and the Phoenix Trust whose president is HRH the Prince of Wales. He was also responsible for leading the design team responsible for the conservation of Newhailes, near Edinburgh, where the award-winning conservation work was praised as “exemplary” and for “reducing the gap between theory and practice to an almost imperceptible chink”. He is currently responsible for the conservation of Abbotsford, the world-famous home of Sir Walter Scott, and the redevelopment of the A Listed Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh.
Mark has written Conservation Plans for a number of A Listed significant places including Calton Hill, Abbotsford, Parliament House, the Glasite Meeting House, Edinburgh Central Library, the former Royal High School, Taymouth Castle, Lews Castle, Tarlair Open-Air Swimming Pool, and the Frigate Unicorn.
Mark served on the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland for four years until its abolition and now serves on the Historic Environment Advisory Council which advises Scottish Ministers on strategic matters affecting the historic environment as well as the RIAS Conservation Committee. He is also appointed by the Queen as a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and is a director of the Dunure Foundation which provides financial assistance for young people to attend university. He is a member of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, The National Trust for Scotland, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, The Garden History Society, and the Friends of Historic Scotland.
Mark has a keen interest in all types of historic buildings and a collection of his sketches of two Conservation Villages in the Orkneys was published by Orkney Islands Council Department of Planning.
selected project awards:
Newhailes won the 2003 RIBA Conservation Project of the Year Award, an RIBA Award, and a Europa Nostra Diploma. The Kilncraigs Mill development was shortlisted for the RIAS Scottish Building of the Year 2003, europe’s largest architectural prize, and received an Award in the 2003 Scottish Enterprise Dynamic Place Awards. Stanley Mills won the 2002 Scottish Property Awards Housing Development of the Year Award and in 2009 has won a Europa Nostra Medal for conservation, one of only trwenty seven awarded in Europe, and the Bell Mill Visitor Centre has won the Scottish RICS Building Conservation Award.
Partner
Mark Hopton joined Law and Dunbar-Nasmith Architects in 1988 immediately after completing his architectural studies at Edinburgh College of Art where at that time Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith was Professor of Architecture. In January 1996 he was appointed as an Associate within the Practice and in January 1999 became a Partner.
During his time with LDN he has worked almost exclusively on projects involving the careful conservation and revitalisation of historic buildings and for two years worked on site as resident site architect and contract administrator responsible for the multi-million pound restoration of Balnagown Castle.
In recent years he has led the Design Teams responsible for a number of successful major conservation projects involving Category A Listed buildings including the preparation of a redevelopment plan for Parliament House, seat of the Supreme Courts in Scotland, and implementation of its first phase, and the twelve-year restoration and redevelopment of Category A Listed Stanley Mills, near Perth, for Historic Scotland and the Phoenix Trust whose president is HRH the Prince of Wales. He was also responsible for leading the design team responsible for the conservation of Newhailes, near Edinburgh, where the award-winning conservation work was praised as “exemplary” and for “reducing the gap between theory and practice to an almost imperceptible chink”. He is currently responsible for the conservation of Abbotsford, the world-famous home of Sir Walter Scott, and the redevelopment of the A Listed Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh.
Mark has written Conservation Plans for a number of A Listed significant places including Calton Hill, Abbotsford, Parliament House, the Glasite Meeting House, Edinburgh Central Library, the former Royal High School, Taymouth Castle, Lews Castle, Tarlair Open-Air Swimming Pool, and the Frigate Unicorn.
Mark served on the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland for four years until its abolition and now serves on the Historic Environment Advisory Council which advises Scottish Ministers on strategic matters affecting the historic environment as well as the RIAS Conservation Committee. He is also appointed by the Queen as a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and is a director of the Dunure Foundation which provides financial assistance for young people to attend university. He is a member of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, The National Trust for Scotland, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, The Garden History Society, and the Friends of Historic Scotland.
Mark has a keen interest in all types of historic buildings and a collection of his sketches of two Conservation Villages in the Orkneys was published by Orkney Islands Council Department of Planning.
selected project awards:
Newhailes won the 2003 RIBA Conservation Project of the Year Award, an RIBA Award, and a Europa Nostra Diploma. The Kilncraigs Mill development was shortlisted for the RIAS Scottish Building of the Year 2003, europe’s largest architectural prize, and received an Award in the 2003 Scottish Enterprise Dynamic Place Awards. Stanley Mills won the 2002 Scottish Property Awards Housing Development of the Year Award and in 2009 has won a Europa Nostra Medal for conservation, one of only trwenty seven awarded in Europe, and the Bell Mill Visitor Centre has won the Scottish RICS Building Conservation Award.