Vo Trong Nghia

The best architecture is often in the purity of a simple idea executed to the clarity of its vision. Vo Trong Nghia’s work has ambition and yet that ambition does not get it the way of their values, focusing on sustainability, craft and community.  

Bamboo veil covering this factory renovation, 2014.

Founded in 2006 Vo Trong Nghia architects (or VTN Architects) is based in Vietnam with studios in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. What defines VTN’s work is that they use traditional techniques and building materials of Vietnamese construction yet their work resonates internationally. Its local and global.

Grand World Phu welcome centre, in Vietnam, 2022.

VTN Architects commitment to local materials, techniques and sustainability is best exemplified through their work using bamboo. Their entrance building for visitors to Grand World Phu Quoc (a leisure and entertainment complex) in Vietnam uses approximately 42,000 pieces of bamboo to create a structure that is self-supporting, enables daylight permeability and celebrates the heroic qualities of bamboo.

House For Trees, Ho Chi Minh City, 2014

In 2014 Vo Trong Nghia completed House For Trees. Five planter boxes for landscape to thrive and people to live. House For Trees could be a landscape and equally it could be a residential project. House For Trees marries sustainability and community by putting people first and backing that up with a generous landscape experience front and centre. Vo Trong Nghia’s strength is that their architecture is a forum for people and landscape not the other way around. Hear hear.

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