Vietnam

With its House for Trees series, Vo Trong Nghia Architects has embarked on a mission to reintroduce greenery to inner-city Vietnam. Ha Long Villa is the latest home in the series and features trees jutting out of a concrete exterior.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects once again adds greenery to its architecture with its most recent project, Chicland Hotel. The building is part-covered in plants and squeezes into a cramped and awkward plot near the beach in Vietnam.

Scientists have now re-discovered a species that has long been missing. The silver-backed chevrotain, a tiny deer-like creature that hasn’t been seen in the wild in almost 30 years, has been captured alive and well on camera traps in Vietnam.

Vietnam's VTN Architects continues its pursuit of adding greenery-infused architecture to its homeland with a pair of new projects. The most notable, the Viettel Offsite Studio, is defined by a novel zigzagging form designed to provide staff with a green and comfortable work environment.

Vietnam's Vo Trong Nghia Architects' overriding goal is to add greenery to its homeland's cities and the firm highlights this again with its recently-completed Breathing House. The project involved covering a narrow home in an awkward crowded plot in Ho Chi Minh City with a "green veil" of plants.

​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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.