The 2025 HD Awards Project Winners

BAR, CLUB + LOUNGE
Department 57, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Set in a historic space with existing vaults, Department 57 marries a moody black-clad bar—complete with a hidden ice cave—with media installations found on the dance floor elevated by a glowing orb beside the DJ station and bolt-like light strips streaking across the ceiling. “Even the smallest deviation would completely break the effect, so we provided detailed technical drawings to preserve the exact visual geometry,” says DA Bureau senior architect Kamila Gilmutdinova. Making those curves in real time proved challenging for the firm, “because the flexible light tape couldn’t bend that sharply; it took a lot of prototyping to get it right,” she adds.

Architecture and Interior Design Firm: DA Bureau, London | Owner: Department 57