An art week has been organised to raise funds for a
school building for more than 100 Mong ethnic children in the
mountainous Lao Lung Tung village, Ha Giang Province.
Conservation work began yesterday on Hue''s iconic building, the Phu Van
Lau Pavilion, costing a total of VND12 billion (US$600,000) to be taken
from the local budget.
All roads leading to the Thu Le Communal House, a national heritage
building located at Quang Phuoc Commune in central Thua Thien - Hue
Province, were busy yesterday morning.
Bamboo roots used to be burned as firewood in rural areas of Viet Nam,
since farmers only used trunks of bamboo trees for handcrafts or the
building of houses.
A giant wall mural at the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange
has brightened the entire building, which is especially welcoming on
grey and rainy winter days in Ha Noi.
The Dolphin Plaza building in Tu Liem, a district in
the outskirts of Ha Noi, won first prize in the 2012 Viet Nam National
Architecture Awards – marking the first victory by a luxury apartment
complex.
Participants at a workshop in HCM City on Wednesday
on relics commemorating late president Ton Duc Thang (1888-1980) agreed
it was necessary to preserve the original architecture of the Ba Son
ship-building factory, where the Sai Gon-Cho Lon workers'' movement
against the colonists was...
