Just 15 kilometers far from the center of Hanoi, the suburban district Dong Anh has witnessed pervasive urbanization – one of the major causes for a trend towards a maximum use of volume and quantity of construction areas. Lesser importance has been attached to the quality of used space and surrounding scenery. This has resulted in a large number of “suffocating” buildings as often found in newly planned, stuffy urban areas characterized with land plot subdivision for building row houses in Vietnam.
The building is located 30 km from Hanoi, besides the main road connecting Hanoi and Hoa Binh. This area is popular for stopover of buses and cars in order to enjoy and have a rest long journey and also it is a destination for Hanoians to enjoy one day trip.
House block is a typical characteristic of urbanization at fast speed in developing countries in Asia, including Vietnam. QT House is one of such houses in Hanoi.
Land dimension is 4,2mx10m, it is located in a very quiet and small alley. 3-metre wide lane is the road as well as the main approach to the house.
Article source: gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
“What is Vietnamese building culture?” This question is asked in a country the architecture of which was for many years defined by the former colonial powers, France and Japan, and by the separation of the country into North and South Vietnam with the two capitals, Hanoi and Saigon.
With a limited budget, the goal of this project is to create a pavilion with a capacity of 1’700 employees working on the Fsoft C4 building in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Located in the park in front of the main office building, the pavilion disappears into the landscape. The drawn profile of the building blends into the vegetation of the surrounding park. Mingling with trees, it seems that the users lose the perception of its limits. The transparency of the façade makes the place an open interior space with no breaks nor visual barriers. In order to break the scale, create islets of vegetation and ensure natural ventilation, the patios are integrated inside the pavilion.
Located at the center of Hanoi, Cheering Restaurant is renovated from a long-closed project which still remains steel frame structure and reusable covering materials such as: glass, steel, bar steel, sheet-metal roof.
The life on sidewalk, where many daily activities of Hanoi people, especially cuisine happen from daytime to nighttime, inspired the designers to create a space that recalls ancient trees – a familiar image in streets of this thousand-year-old city.
Ngoc believes that architecture is to serve for the living of human in the harmonious relationship with the nature as architecture is not a tool to express human’s power and their domination over the nature, instead, it is to behave gently with everything in all aspects.
The Garden is an attempt to participate to a new fresh life that’s emerging within the particular space of a factory from the Soviet era in Hanoi. The space, well located at the border of the old French neighbourhood, near the Opera House is an ancient penicillinfactory. Invested mainly by artists, fashion designers and creative people of all kinds, the spaces inside the factory provide a new cultural dynamic to young Hanoi.
Hei Tower Project, in Hanoi City, got first prize in competition. It’s a mix-used building with commercial, office for lease, service center and apartments. It is focused particularly in the right organization and use of the building. The building wants to answer the corner location, ensuring areas for develop social relationships between residents and visitors. It has been created different open areas to increase public space.
Foster + Partners’ first project in Vietnam breaks ground on 22 October 2010
A ground-breaking ceremony was held for VietinBank Business Center, Foster + Partners’ first project in Vietnam. Bringing together the Bank’s headquarters, conference, hotel and leisure facilities, the landmark towers are strategically located between central Hanoi and the airport, demonstrating the emergence of Vietnam as an international financial centre.
VietinBank Business Center at night - (c) Foster + Partners
Architects: Foster + Partners
Team: Norman Foster, David Nelson, Mouzhan Majidi, Luke Fox, Andy Bow, Richard Hawkins, Angus Campbell, Jeremy Kim, Coco Cugat
Client: Vietinbank
Structural Engineers: Halvorson and Partners
Mechanical Engineers: David Stillman Associates
Cost Consultants: Davis Langdon and Seah
Lighting Design: Tino Kwan
Water Features: Fluidity
Landscaping: Urbis
Facades: Emmer Pfenniger
Feng Shui : Master Lau
Local Consultants: Vinaconex R+D
Project Management and Construction Supervision : Turner International
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