Chief Architect, GORPROEKT
With 25 years of international experience in architecture, architect Philip Nikandrov is one of Russia’s leading professionals in the field of extra-large and unique buildings. In 1997 Philip Nikandrov joined the team of the international architectural company RMJM and worked as an author and chief architect on a number of the firm’s most prestigious commissions in offices in the UK, the Middle East and Russia. In 2011, having completed his 15-year career at RMJM as a director and head of a European studio, F. Nikandrov headed the team of authors of the Russian design institute CJSC GORPROEKT as its chief architect, focusing on the implementation of significant high-rise buildings in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Among the largest objects of the architect are the Evolution Tower in the Moscow-City MIBC, the new City Square and the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, the high-rise dominant of which is the tallest and greenest skyscraper in Europe, having won the LEED Platinum certification. Philip Nikandrov is a leading Russian and world-renowned expert in the field of high-rise architecture, as the chairman of the forum he headed the Skyscrapers Asia Summit-2017 in Singapore. Author of numerous publications, participant and speaker of international conferences.