HANOI ARCHITECTURE Ait ta-fbmuiL notebook of ajucuble city
civil architect - Ha^uot - oslo
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Preface 7 Acknowledgements 8 Hanoi soon a thousand years 9
1. THE JUMBLE CITY 13 Contemporary architecture in Hanoi 15 A positive chaos? Wild architecture without architects. 16
DISTRICTS OF HANOI 1 7
2. HOAN KIEM DISTRICT - A 19
Al - Ngoc Son Temple 20 A2 - Thuy Ta Cafe & Restaurant 22 A3 - St Joseph's Cathedral 24 A4 - Government Guesthouse 26 A5 - State Bank of Vietnam 28 A6 - Sofitel Metropole Hanoi 30
A7 - Hanoi Opera House 32 A8 - Hilton Hanoi Opera 34 A9 - History Museum 36 A10 - Quan Su Pagoda 38 Al 1 - Cultural Friendship Palace 40
3. THE ANCIENT QUARTER OF HANOI 42
Al 2 - Hang Be 47 Al 3 - Typical Tube Houses 48 Al 4 - Tube House Ngo Phat Loc 49
4. BA DINH DISTRICT - B 50
Bl - One-Pillar Pagoda 52 B2 - Ho Chi Minn Museum 54
B3 - Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
B4 - Presidential Palace 56 B5 - Ho Chi Minh House on Stilts 58 B6 - Giang Vo Collective Dwellings 60 B7 - Well-off Family Flat at Giang Vo 62 B8 - Quan Thanh Temple 64
05 5. TAY HO DISTRICT - C 66
CI - Tran Quoc Pagoda 68
C2 - Thang Loi Hotel 70
C3 - Hai San Ngon 72
C4 - Intercontinental Hanoi West Lake Hotel 74
C5 - Kim Lien Pagoda 76 C6 - Sapodilar House 78
C7 - Sen Restaurant 80
6. CAU CIAY DISTRICT - D 82
Dl - Windy House 84
D2 - National Convention Center 86
D3 - Museum of Ethnology 88
7. DONG DA DISTRICT - E 90
El - Temple of Literature 92
E2 - Museum of Fine Arts 94
E3 - Trung Tu Collective Dwellings 96
E4 - Petro Vietnam Headquarters 98
8. HAI BA TRUNG DISTRICT - F 100
Fl - Hai Ba Trung Temple 102
F2 - Reunification Park 104
9. OUTSKIRTS OF HANOI 106
But Thap Pagoda 106 Dinh Bang Dinh 107 Perfume Pagoda 107 Thay Pagoda 108 Tay Phuong Pagoda 109 Phu Thanh Chuong 110
10. MOSAIC 111
POSTSRIPT 115
Sources and Bibliography 119 Photographs and illustrations Some Vietnamese words
This book was written before August 2008 and does not concern the newly expanded Hanoi
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