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The dougong (Chinese: 斗拱; pinyin: dǒugǒng; lit. cap [and] block; Vietnamese: Đấu củng) is an important part of Chinese architecture, is rarely or not found in Vietnamese architecture starting from the Lý dynasty where Vietnamese architecture began to develop and innovate away from Chinese traditional architecture. Vietnamese ...
Style Phung Son Pagoda: 1802–1820 Chinese architecture: Quan Âm Pagoda: 1816 Chinese architecture: Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica (Notre Dame Cathedral, Ho Chi Minh City) 1877–1883 Neo-Romanesque: Hotel Continental Saigon: 1880 French Colonial: Thiên Hậu Temple: 19th century Chinese architecture: Mariamman Temple: late 19th century Hindu
Vietnam holds the second-highest number of World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia with ten sites. [3] The Complex of Huế Monuments was the first site in Vietnam to be inscribed on the list at the 17th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Colombia in 1993. [4]
Hoi An reflects a combination of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and later European influences that have created a diverse city with various architectural styles. Hoi An Ancient Town was listed as a National Cultural Heritage Site in 1985 and thus a Special National Cultural Heritage Site under the Cultural Heritage Law of 2001. [5]
The 17.25-hectare site displays its architecture, a fusion of Filipino, Chinese, European, and Mexican architecture. For instance, some parts do not fully conform to the grid plan as required by the Laws of the Indies. The two plazas, Salcedo and Burgos, contain a cathedral, an archbishop palace, a city hall, and the Provincial Capitol Building.
After the Philippines was ceded to the United States as a consequence of the Spanish–American War in 1898, the architecture of the Philippines was influenced by American aesthetics. In this period, the plan for the modern City of Manila was designed, with many neoclassical architecture and art deco buildings by famous American and Filipino ...
When Chinese influence permeated Vietnam, Chinese architecture had a large influence on the basic structure of many types of Vietnamese buildings, mostly pagodas and temples, communal houses, houses of scholar-bureaucrats, aristocracy, and imperial palaces and quarters. Nevertheless, these structures combined both Chinese influences and native ...
The 1940s-era buildings along the middle section of Ratchadamnoen (Kingswalk) Avenue; Scala Cinema, Bangkok, 1969; Banque de l'Indochine (now State Bank of Vietnam), Hanoi, Vietnam Dalat Palace Hotel, Da Lat, Vietnam