Evgeniy Hardware

He is a practicing architect, who has designed more than 25 unique buildings over 12 years/professional career. Evgeny considers architecture not as a profession, but as a way of life.

Close—up Plan (KPLN) is one of the leading full-service architectural firms (Forbes TOP 30), among the top three in the TOP 50 Architectural Bureau (Urban 2025 rating), and the best housing designers in Russia (TOP 50 Movement.ru 2025).

KPLN has more than 150 implemented and 450 conceptual projects, ranging from public to residential business and premium class facilities to large—scale master plans of territories. Among them are the Teply Stan metro mall (shortlisted by WAF), Premium residential complex, Arkhyz Airport (finalist of WAF 2026) — the first air harbor in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Omsk-Fedorovka airport, KPLN office in a restored historical mansion from 1892 (TOP 100 "Best Projects in Russia 2023-2025" of the magazine "Project Russia").

The staff consists of more than 200 specialists: architects, engineers, designers, BIM coordinators. Clients include Sminex, Stone Hedge, AVA Group, FORMA, FGC, City XXI century, Airplane, PIK, Etalon, A101, RSTI, Profi-Invest.

The bureau's facilities have been awarded prestigious prizes and diplomas: World Architecture Festival, Architizer A+Awards, UDAD Awards, IADA, "Architecture", "Golden Section", "Project Russia", Moscow Arch Council Award, CRE, ArchWOOD, ADDAWARDS.