Two local projects win International Architecture Awards
VOV.VN - A jury of Italian architects and critics has announced that two local projects are among the winners of The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies’ International Architecture Awards for 2016.
“This year’s awarded projects address critical architecture and planning concerns for advanced post-industrial cities,” said Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, who is the Chicago Athenaeum’s museum president, at the award presentation ceremony.
Toigetation is a local project designed by a team of architects, aiming to improve sanitation facilities in Son Lap School, Son Lap Commune, in the province of Cao Bang in Vietnam.
Cheering restaurant is the second winning local project, targeting a solution to the conflict between contemporary architecture and the context full of historical and cultural values, while reshaping the urban and architectural picture in Hanoi central area - where every square meter costs billions of dong.