Hue has long been Vietnam's centre of wooden architecture and many of the buildings here, royal palaces included, are Ruong style.
A typical Ruong house is noble vet cosy, hinting ..
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Vietnamese architecture arises from the Kings Hung dynasty.
Before the 10th century, villages and hamlets appeared in this period according..
Home, guesthouse, men's club, training centre, committee room and religious space - there are many uses for the soaring Bahnar communal house being built at the Vietnam Museum of Eth..
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A number of Hoi An's wooden buildings date from the first half of the 19th century or earlier. Imaginative visitors feel thai they have been tr..
Made of strong durable wood (such as « iron wood » called Lime), these houses are built on stilts, with the traditional palm roof to keep the summer heat away.
They are often surr..
These wood-frame houses have become very rare. The roof tiles are made of clay, baked at high temperature in wood kilns buried in the ground.
After 5 days of baking, the still hot t..
To build the walls and roof of their houses, the Hmong and the Dao use one of the most popular woods in the area, peumou (Fokienia Hodginsii) also called « coffin wood ».
To build..
Many French architects living in Indo-China borrowed building techniques and decoration patterns from Vietnamese and Chinese architecture.
The few Sa Pa buildings that have survived..