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Ancient architecture in Vietnam had stilt houses (Vietnamese: nhà sàn) built with materials like wood and bamboo. Depictions of these houses are seen on Đông Sơn bronze drums . There are 2 types of houses with roofs curved up like a boat and roofs curved down like turtle shells.
Hằng Nga guesthouse (Vietnamese: Biệt thự Hằng Nga), popularly known as the “Crazy House” (Vietnamese: Ngôi nhà quái dị), is an unconventional building designed and constructed by Vietnamese architect Đặng Việt Nga in Đà Lạt, Vietnam. Described as a “fairy tale house” (Hằng Nga, chữ Hán: 姮娥, is the Chinese ...
Hanoi's Opera House is designed based on the Palais Garnier, which is the older of Paris' two opera houses. It is considered as one to Hanoi's most iconic landmarks. [9] Built from 1901 to 1911, the opera house served as a project by the French Government when they occupied Vietnam. It was designed and supervised by Harley and Broyer with many ...
A Đông Sơn axe Dong Son drum from Sông Đà, Mường Lay, Vietnam.Dong Son II culture. Mid-1st millennium BC. Bronze. The Dong Son culture, Dongsonian culture, [1] [2] or the Lạc Việt culture (named for modern village Đông Sơn, a village in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam) was a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam centred at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam from 1000 BC until the ...
Đình (Chữ Hán: 亭 or 庭) or Vietnamese communal houses are typical of buildings found in Vietnam villages, dedicated to worship the village God Thành hoàng, the village founder or a local hero. They also play the role as a meeting place of the people in the community, akin to modern civic centers.
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The Imperial City (Vietnamese: Hoàng thành; chữ Hán: 皇城) is a walled enclosure within the citadel (Kinh thành; chữ Hán: 京城) of the city of Huế, the former imperial capital of Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty. It contains the palaces that housed the imperial family, as well as shrines, gardens, and villas for mandarins.
The Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long (Vietnamese: Hoàng thành Thăng Long; chữ Hán: 皇城 昇龍) is a complex of historic buildings associated with the history of Vietnam located in the centre of Hanoi, Vietnam.