Team: Hiroomi Takemori, Tran Dai Nghia (NH VILLAGE ARCHITECTS) 2015
Architecture in Hanoi is influenced by the city’s transformation as a result of more than 1000 years of Chinese occupation, almost 100 years of French colonisation and almost 30 years of Doi Moi (economic reform). Nowadays Vietnams opening up to global markets has led to rapid transformation of the built
environments.and bring another architectural glance at Hanoi.The street names in Hanoi represent the city’s turbulent history. Several of Hanoi’s main streets were named after local heroes, such as Ngo Quyen and Tran Hung Dao, who led the city against Chinese and Mongolian invaders in the tenth and thirteenth centuries respectively. To mark the end of French colonisation in Hanoi, one of the most important streets is named Dien Bien Phu, after the place in northern Vietnam where French troops officially withdrew from the country in 1954.
