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Everyday Heritage: 10 Vietnamese Coffee Shops Reviving Small-Scale Traditional Buildings

Hana Abdel — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:30:00 +0000

To fully know a city's architectural heritage, one must look beyond its designated sites and iconic buildings. For many, understanding a city's urban fabric and what makes it tick also means discovering the smaller-scale, locally appreciated, conserved buildings and popular gathering spaces. This is especially true when considering bustling Vietnamese cities, with their peculiar architectural characteristics, which can only be appreciated when learning about their many inspirations and historic layers, combining traditional Vietnamese motifs, modernism, local materiality, and climatic design solutions, but mostly by learning about the site constraints that are addressed through the implementation of the narrow tube houses and low-rise buildings.

Green Interiors Trends From Around The World

Hana Abdel — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:30:00 +0000

There is not enough that can be said about the benefits of incorporating plants in interiors or Plantscaping. Integrating vegetation indoors serves many purposes, whether practical, aesthetic, or psychological. Although there are basic requirements for incorporating greenery into Homes, well-thought-out plant selections and placements are characteristically different across the world. By going over recent interior works, a few recurrent plantscaping design patterns arose, each reflective of distinctive climates, building styles, and traditional building techniques.

TD2 House / Hinzstudio

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The project explores spatial organization as a way to nurture family connection and faith within everyday life. The house is situated on a 4 × 20 meter plot that gradually narrows toward the rear, presenting familiar constraints of Vietnam's tube houses: a deep, elongated layout with limited access to natural light and ventilation. The building has only two open sides: an east-facing frontage that receives morning sunlight and a side façade bordering a narrow alley, offering an opportunity to introduce additional daylight into the interior.

Nam House / 90odesign

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The house is located on a 4.5m x 18m plot within a newly developed resettlement area of the city, where the surrounding density remains relatively low. A generous green space sits directly in front of the site. The design team sought to create a scheme that maximizes views toward this green frontage while ensuring security, privacy, and natural ventilation.

How Environments Shape Outdoor Dining Spaces: 24 Architectural Approaches

Olivia Poston — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Outdoor terraces occupy a familiar threshold in cities around the world, operating as social rooms that sit between interior space and open air to host rituals of daily life. People meet to share a drink, watch the street's movement, or pause before returning to their routines. These places serve as cultural settings as much as commercial ones, revealing how hospitality and public life intersect to shape the city's character.

Vietnam’s Tube Houses: Architectural Strategies Under 100 m²

Moises Carrasco — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Vietnam, the tube house has almost become a vernacular form in densely populated cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. This typology originated from ancient façade taxes and as a strategic response to urban land scarcity and optimization of street frontage for commerce. Their traditional structure typically relies on the front façade for daylight and ventilation. People living there often face the challenge of designing in a space defined by the deep plots, limited street frontage, and close neighboring buildings, restricting natural light and airflow. To counter this fundamental lack of perimeter exposure, Vietnamese architects usually employ several strategies oriented towards internal environmental manipulation. This curated collection explores tube houses under 100 m2, where their small size increased the need for absolute spatial economy and the verticalization of function, which directly influenced design decisions across all projects.

M.Casa / Hinzstudio

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000

M.Casa reinterprets the spirit of the traditional Vietnamese home, balancing simplicity and warmth within the fast-paced rhythm of contemporary urban life. Located on a 6 × 20-meter plot in a small alley of Ho Chi Minh City, the house is surrounded by dense concrete structures. The young couple who owns the home sought a quiet, natural, and intimate environment to welcome their growing family.

Bridging the Gap: 15 Atypical Living Solutions in Urban Remnants

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Bars and Restaurants: 50 Examples in Plan and Section

Fabian Dejtiar — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 07:30:00 +0000

The spatial distribution of a restaurant or bar is essential to its success. Faced with this design challenge, several architects have experimented and proposed configurations that both enhance the use of space in different culinary experiences.

Perforated Architecture: 20 Projects that Bring Back the Historic Musharrabiya

Dima Stouhi — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 04:00:00 +0000

There is often an intricate relationship between architecture and the environment. Each part of the world has defined its own architectural techniques based on its unique climatic conditions. However, environmental concerns in the 21st century provoked new techniques, implementing solutions to preserve natural resources and provide thermal comfort. While some opted for a futuristic approach with mechanical and technologically-advanced solutions, others decided to go back in time and explore how civilizations protected their people, architecture, and environment when they had nothing else to resort to but the environment itself. In this article, we look at how Musharrabiyas found their way back into modern-day architecture as significant vernacular features.

Adding Fresh Hanging Gardens to Residential Architecture

Lilly Cao — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:30:00 +0000

If ancient Hellenic sources are to be believed, hanging gardens have existed at least since antiquity when the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon were described by writers such as Herodotus and Philo of Byzantium. Today, vertical gardens have proliferated alongside the interest in indoor plants and gardens, especially in suitable climates. This trend in architecture reflects a simultaneous uptick in interest toward sustainability and a more pastoral, back-to-nature lifestyle. In the projects listed below, several of the architects mention moving forward from an industrial past—with its concomitant environmental effects—toward a better future, or at least a secluded, fresh, and natural outpost amidst the chaos of modern city life. Indoor gardens, and the visual allure of hanging plants and climbing vines, provide the setting for such a life. These vertical designs simultaneously conserve space and embed the plants within the atmosphere of the house, ensuring the space feels as much like a garden as it does a comfortable home.

Architecture and Color: Explore 15 Projects that Feature Exterior Red Staircases

Luciana Pejić — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 06:30:00 +0000

Stairs are often an inevitable part of a building's DNA. Nowadays, staircases not only serve the function of practicality but are also a showcase of their own kind, especially if paired with a color that is guaranteed to grab attention. Among warm colors, red is considered to be the most powerful one. On one hand, it evokes feelings of joy and energy, and on the other, feelings of alertness and danger. Red can stimulate a whole range of emotions. Therefore, its usage should be attentive, delicate, and thought out.

ZIP House / Hinzstudio

Hana Abdel — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:00:00 +0000

ZIP is a small house in Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai, Việt Nam. The owner wants to have a warmly small enough space for the 5 members' family, but that space must be where they want to go home and live with each other every day.

DI House / Hinzstudio

Hana Abdel — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 02:00:00 +0000

These are two houses in one land, and we intentionally make it like one house. These are for a 3-generations family with 7 members. It’s built on a 650sqm land far from the city center. The owner lived in apartments for many years – where all family members can see and hear each other every time.

HHT Coffee / P.I Architects

Hana Abdel — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 19:00:00 +0000

The land plot, 3km from the center of Dalt city, sits on the hillside, offering a seemingly endless view toward the valleys, without any obstacle. The first time visiting the site, we just stood still, admiring the marvelous landscape from the place where the future coffee shop would be.

H House / G+ Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:00:00 +0000

This is a small villa for a nuclear family located on a lively and crowded main street of My Tho city – Tien Giang province. Its area is not too large. In the limited site, the dwelling needs to ensure the building density and distances to create a quiet and private space for family members. It makes them relax when coming back home after a busy working day. The architect's desire is always to bring not only a convenient residence but also experiences with various spaces and the attracted natural elements consisting of light rhythm and windy journey.

Roof Gardens / Ladesignstudio

chlsey — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Roof gardens is located in Nha Trang city, Vietnam is the place where the owner sends his desire to be a relaxing place for the whole family, a place to welcome friends and true function. Roof gardens is designed to adapt to the tropical climate, while increasing the connection with people and with nature through living spaces, relaxing spaces with architectural solutions, more importantly, bringing the connection with the old place through access to the habits, lifestyle, and culture of use, harmony with the general view by the image of the whole garden '' growing vegetables. fish '' close to the old days. In this project, the role of architects is just perception and transition. Works as a background of harmony between context, nature, and people.

Roof Folding House / MDA Architecture

Andreas Luco — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Situated in a green, multifunctional precinct with villas, recreation grounds, tennis courts, cafeteria, swimming pools, and gardens, roof folding house is a smart design based on two parts: the permanently constructed one as the main building and the pre-engineered part as the veranda.