Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   The client asked for a bamboo structure embodying Vietnamese culture and symbols like the lotus and the bronze drum. The new Vinpearl visitor center goes up at the center of a large tourist complex, with a building area of 1,460 square meters. The re

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   On a corner lot in the center of Bat Trang Town, located just a few kilometers from the Vietnamese capital and known for its pottery-making tradition, stands this residence for the family of an old ceramics specialist.  The building has three overlap

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   When Vietnam opened to international tourism, it was a strong boost for the economic growth of the country, but unleashed an uncontrolled urbanization process that has stripped the cities of their tropical forests and threatened their natural ecosyst

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   A little over thirty kilometers from the city of Hanoi, on a sloping lakeside terrain within Hoa Lac technological campus, and just a few meters from the engineering center, Viettel has completed a business center for the company’s leaders. The proje

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Viettel Academy Educational Center is in a training campus at Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park, thirty kilometers from Hanoi. With classrooms, meeting rooms, halls, offices, and temporary housing, the center provides accommodation and training courses for the st

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Castaway Island Resort is located on a beautiful tiny island in Cat Ba Archipelago, a well-known tourist destination in Vietnam. The site is only accessible by boat, which takes about two hours from Hai Phong port. The resort has room for up to 160 g

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   The single-family house is located in a new residential area in Ho Chi Minh City. The site is adjacent to a park on its northern side, which is a rare opportunity in the dense and hyperurbanized Vietnamese cities. The design therefore focused on buil

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Italy   Freespace, the optimistic motto chosen for the 16th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – Grafton Architects –, defends that architecture can be generous and functional at the same time. In line

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   The flexible urban planning in this new neighborhood has permitted occupying the maximum area f the plots , to the detriment of green areas, wich are fewer and fewer. Reactingto this denaturalization of the tropical ecosystem of Ho Chi Min City and f

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Located close to the center of Son La City and surrounded by mountains covered with dense tropical vegetation, this series of pavilions inspired in traditional Vietnamese architecture completes a touristic resort with a new multipurpose space. The pr

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Located in the Dong Da district of the Vietnamese capital, the four-story prismatic building harbors two complementary programs: on the one hand, a showroom for the lighting products of an electronics company; on the other hand, an exhibition gallery

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   The house sits just a few meters from the water in the quiet residential neighborhood of Nha Trang, a touristic town in the southeast of the country. The project had to address two requests: on one hand, the client wanted a house with a large garden;

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Located just 16 kilometers away from one of the main airports in Vietnam and half-way between Danang city and Hoi An old town, this retreat-resort is a center for the recovery of the body and mind, a getaway where long-stay guests can relax in a peac

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   The province of Son La, north of Vietnam, is an area with abundant nature of untouched forests and beautiful mountainscapes. Even with its strong cultural and natural beauty, there was little development or accommodation for tourists to recognize the

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Designed for two generations of the same family, a young couple and the mother of one of the two, the design of the house is determined by the characteristic geometry of the plot on which it goes up: a rectangular, narrow, and elongated site, barely

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Combining the advantages of the previous prototypes, the stainless steel lattice walls secure, support, and rigidify the frame of S House 3, which is clad with microcement and isolated from the ground by a concrete pedestal, ensuring its durability.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Vietnam is historically an agricultural country, but accelerated economic changes in the last decades are sending young people out of the countryside and into the cities, which have become increasingly polluted ecosystems. To address the situation th

Takashi Niwa Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Located in the Dong Da district of the Vietnamese capital, the fourstory prismatic building harbors complementary programs: on the one hand, a showroom for the lighting products of an electronics company; on the other hand, a gallery and a work space

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Like so many other cities in the Asian continent, Vietnamese ones are undergoing intensive urban development. After years of frenzied growth, these cities have gradually lost their original natural features, and are no longer exuberant tropical fores

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Both the house and the office prototype are constructed with fiberglass roofs and polycarbonate facades, with interior surfaces clad with bamboo. The space inside is subdivided by curtains and different floor heights to create furniture elements.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   The light frame, made of precast concrete modular elements to which the users bolt on Nipa palm tree panels and polycarbonate, makes it possible to do without complex foundations, allowing for transportation in small boats.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Located in Kontum City, in the central part of Vietnam, this building within a hotel complex functions as a cafeteria for tourists and as a banquet hall for wedding receptions. It consists of two elements. The main building is designed as a simple re

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Vietnam   Surrounded by an artificial lake, the dome, measuring ten meters high and fifteen meters in diameter, is topped with an oculus of 1.5 meters in diameter that ensures the release of hot air from the bar, cooled by the adiabatic evaporation of the peri

Just like the rest of the countries in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has experienced a deep transformation over the last three decades, from a rural and agricultural economy to an urban and industrial one. This fast metamorphosis has brought along huge eco

Vo Trong Nghia   Since the foundation of the studio in the year 2006, my work is based on these key principles: Through Meditation Through meditation, I observe how things are born and how they disappear; I realize that everything passes by, everything ends in a natu

Nirmal Kishnani   In a context of rapid urban growth, Vo Trong Nghia defends an architecture based on local knowledge, communion with nature, and social commitment. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Vo Trong Nghia strives to make the world a better place, and tackles that titanic task in tune with nature. With the humble ambition of one who does not want to see the tsunami of urban development and prosperity destroy the essential landscapes of h