Socialist Era Housing Estates

Căng-tin Cà Phê is defined by its setting at the base of an old Hanoi apartment block, where the interior layout stretches across two separate buildings just meters apart across an alleyway. Inside, the walls are painted yellow and…

Khu tập thể Kim Liên is defined by its distinct mustard yellow walls and rows of blocky, four-story buildings that rise above the surrounding streets. Completed in nineteen sixty-two, this complex stands as the first social housing project…

The Siêu thị Tự chọn B11 Kim Liên sits at one hundred and eight B11 Hoàng Tích Trí, identifiable by a storefront that functions as a neighborhood grocery provider. While it appears from the outside to be a standard shop for household goods…

Suỵt kafe occupies a unit on the second floor of the B-four dormitory block in the Trung Tu neighborhood. You can identify the site by the wooden tables and chairs set out in the open-air hallway, where tree branches overhang the building…

The playground at B6 Trung Tu is a small, open community space set within the dense residential blocks of Hanoi’s Trung Tu collective housing area. You can recognize this spot by its modest layout of paved ground and shared equipment…

Trung Tu Market is defined by its low-slung, utilitarian concrete structure, a common architectural hallmark of residential markets built in Hanoi during the late twentieth century. Unlike the ancient trading hubs of the Old Quarter, this…

The Khương Thượng residential complex, or Khu tập thể Khương Thượng, is a collection of apartment blocks constructed between the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies. You can identify these buildings by their aging, low-rise…

Trung Tự is a model collective housing complex built in Hanoi between nineteen seventy-two and nineteen seventy-five. You can identify the site by its cluster of low-rise, five-story apartment blocks that define this urban neighborhood.…