Congratulations to architects Nguyen Anh Duc, Hoang Ha Ngan, Pham The Vinh, and Nguyen Tuan Ngoc for being honored with the 2024-2025 National Architecture Award (Gold Medal) for their project: Van Ho Inter-Agency Complex. The National Architecture Award is the highest and most prestigious award for architecture in Vietnam. The Van Ho Inter-Agency Complex project […]
Congratulations to architects Nguyen Anh Duc, Hoang Ha Ngan, Pham The Vinh, and Nguyen Tuan Ngoc for being honored with the 2024-2025 National Architecture Award (Gold Medal) for their project: Van Ho Inter-Agency Complex. The National Architecture Award is the highest and most prestigious award for architecture in Vietnam. The Van Ho Inter-Agency Complex project was also selected as one of the key projects commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of Hanoi (1954–2024).
Upon completion and commissioning, the project has contributed to the formation of a centralized administrative area for the city, improving working conditions for departments and agencies, optimizing land use, enhancing the efficiency of office space utilization, and facilitating administrative procedures for citizens and businesses.
The design journey, which began in 2017, has overcome numerous challenges and changes (the pandemic, three changes in the decision-maker regarding investment policies, and many changes in functionality due to the rearrangement of offices, etc.). The design team has always maintained a sense of responsibility, a proactive attitude, and perseverance in pursuing and protecting the core values of the design concept. With a design philosophy focused on the rational organization of space within the context of the old town, the solution involved partially freeing up the structure on the first floor (a suspended structure solution) to address complex internal and external traffic issues. Simultaneously, it created a network of spaces for communication between people, between departments, and between people and nature, through a system of green spaces interwoven between the workspaces.
With 200% effort and perseverance in persuading Hanoi to avoid traditional architecture, and with the administrative building’s architecture having a serious yet friendly and approachable feel, the Van Ho Inter-Agency Project was one of the few projects in Hanoi at that time to have its modern architectural design approved by the city. The project was also one of the very few public investment projects in Hanoi to apply BIM in all design phases and aimed to achieve green and energy-saving standards.There’s a slight regret because the architectural design solution envisioned the building as a backdrop behind the large trees on Le Dai Hanh Street, but the impact of Typhoon Yagi just before completion meant the project wasn’t fully completed, failing to fully achieve the vision of integrating the greenery with the building.
Once again, congratulations to the winning architects and the design teams 𝗕𝗶𝗺𝟭 and 𝗔𝗦𝟵 – 𝗖𝗼̂𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗣 𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗢
