Citing pollution and road trauma statistics, the Hanoi People's Council has voted overwhelmingly in favor of banning motorcycles in the inner city by 2030. Instead, the city is aiming to develop public transport to better serve its 7.6 million residents.
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Vo Trong Nghia Architects has long professed a desire to add more greenery to Vietnam's cities and this is reflected with its latest project, the Chicland Hotel. The extraordinary building will be almost completely covered in vegetation and squeezed into an awkward plot near the coast in Da Nang.
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Construction is set to get underway on an enormous eco-resort on the coast of Vietnam after the development was given approval by the Vietnamese government. Designed by design studio Chapman Taylor, the epic resort will encompass seven hotels providing a total of 7,000 rooms.
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Binh House, by Vietnam's Vo Trong Nghia Architects, keeps three generations of the same family naturally comfortable in tropical Ho Chi Minh City using clever passive design. The concrete home is part of the House for Trees series, which aims to create oases of green in inner-city Vietnam.
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Yamaha has introduced a fuel-saving stop/start system on its new Janus scooter, a 125cc, slightly retro scoot weighing 97 kg and targeted at female riders in the Vietnamese market, where a massive 2.85 million motorcycles and scoots are sold per year.
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Bamboo can be a useful building material, but the Diamond Island Community Center by Vietnam's Vo Trong Nghia Architects recently provided a reminder that in the right hands, it can be beautiful, too.
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Vietnam's Vo Trong Nghia Architects recently displayed its latest S House prototype at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Designed for low-income families, the simple home is nearing the mass production stage, and is expected to cost less than US$1,000 to construct.
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Vietnam's Vo Trong Nghia Architects is on a mission to bring greenery to its country's inner city areas. The firm recently proposed a trio of condominiums for Ho Chi Minh City which are linked by a roof-based "sky park."
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Vietnam's H&P Architects innovative Re-ainbow community center makes clever use of recycled building materials and boasts solar power and rainwater collection.
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Vietnam's Vo Trong Nghia Architects recently constructed a charming kindergarten for the children of low-income workers based at an adjacent shoe factory that features several examples of good green design.
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