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Bridge - The work titled "House for Trees" from the Vo Trong Nghia Co.,
Ltd has won the AR House Awards 2014 in the UK, for the world’s best
one-off house, over hundreds of other works submitted from around the
world.
Architect Vo Trong Nghia (right) receives the award from the organizer in London.
The
AR House Awards is an internationally renowned architecture award
granted annually by Architectural Review for the best architectural work
of the year.
Architect Vo Trong Nghia’s "House for Trees" won the
prize for its response to the problem of urban pollution and lack of
trees in big crowded cities like Saigon and Hanoi.
As Vietnamese
city dwellers struggle to squeeze potted plants into their homes,
architect Vo Trong Nghia decided to build a house that functions as a
series of pots for trees.
The house includes five separate
prismatic blocks, each of which contains a tree planted on its roof. The
design beat hundreds of other buildings for the award.
Its design offers an inspiring solution to the city's growing pollution and shortage of green space.
It
was completed this year, on 350 square meters in Ho Chi Minh City's Tan
Binh District and was the first of its kind in Vietnam built with a
bamboo framework.
This was also the first work in Vietnam using bamboo-reinforced concrete.
Vo
Trong Nghia Co., Ltd. won another international award from Wallpaper
magazine in the UK and an award from ArchDaily in the US for his "Binh
Thanh House".
The "House For Trees" from Vo Trong Nghia Co., Ltd:
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