Yanko Apostolov, RIBA, Joins Cooper Robertson as Design Director

New York, NY, April 29, 2015 (Newswire.com) - ​​​Cooper Robertson announces that Yanko Apostolov, RIBA, has joined the firm as Design Director. Apostolov brings award-winning design leadership in museum, commercial, mixed-use, research, and high-rise projects worldwide. He will direct the design of the firm's cultural and educational projects and has previously collaborated with Cooper Robertson on the firm's design concept for the new Guggenheim Helsinki museum.

Apostolov most recently led his own firm, Yanko Apostolov Architects, with offices in New York, Shanghai, and Sofia. His most notable design project is the 250,000 square foot National Museum Complex in Sofia, Bulgaria which he won in an open international competition in 2010. Nominated for the EU's Mies van der Rohe 2015 Award, Phase I of the project, comprising permanent art collection galleries, a sculpture courtyard, administrative offices, conservation laboratories, art storage, and public amenities, opened in 2014. Yanko Apostolov Architects' other work included a 50 million square foot Eco-Agriculture Masterplan in Huizou, China, and a 1.2 million square foot Mixed-use Complex in Xinyu, China.

Yanko will bring a current and valuable perspective to the design direction of Cooper Robertson. His talent and experience will advance the firm's design profile and anchor its core values.

Scott Newman, FAIA, Partner

From 2001 to 2011 Apostlov was a Senior Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox, where he served as senior designer for the Harbin Bank Headquarters in Harbin, China; the Harbor View Residential Complex in Songdo City, South Korea; the Kerry mixed-use Center in Hangzhou, China; the Meixi Lake R&D Campus in Meixi, China; the K1 Offices in Hoofdoorp, The Netherlands; and other large-scale commercial and mixed-use buildings.

"Yanko will bring a current and valuable perspective to the design direction of Cooper Robertson. His talent and experience will advance the firm's design profile and anchor its core values", says Scott Newman, FAIA, partner and director of Cooper Robertson's cultural and educational practice.

"I am thrilled to join a firm with such a distinguished legacy and a fantastic team of architects and urban designers producing great work at variety of scales," says Apostolov.

About Cooper Robertson:
Founded in 1979 and based in New York City, Cooper Robertson practices award-winning architecture and urban design with both disciplines working together at a range of scales. The firm skillfully shapes major cultural and educational buildings, addresses large-scale urban design challenges, and crafts exceptional private residences and resorts around the world. Significant recent projects include the new Whitney Museum of American Art in collaboration with Renzo Piano Building Workshop, which opens May 1st, and the Museum of Westward Expansion under the St. Louis Arch, which breaks ground April 29th.

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