Cubes made from white-painted reinforcing rods form frameworks that support staircases and climbing plants at this renovated house in Ho Chi Minh City. More about Block Architects adds trellises and steel-bar walls to Vietnamese house
Greenery overflows from concrete planters set into the sandstone walls of this hotel, designed by Vo Trong Nghia's firm for historic Vietnamese town Hoi An. More about Vo Trong Nghia completes Vietnam hotel featuring walls of hanging plants
Brightly painted shipping containers are stacked one on top of the other to house bunk beds at this hostel in Nha Trang, which also features aerial bridges and giant communal hammocks. More about Stacked shipping containers house bedrooms at Vietnam hostel by TAK Architects
Plant-lined courtyards separate the three single-storey volumes that form this family home designed by MIA Design Studio for a coastal city in Vietnam. More about MIA Design Studio envelopes Vietnam house in plant-covered walls and courtyards
Light filters gently through the perforated terracotta facade of this showroom for electronics company Panasonic, designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects for the Vietnamese capital Hanoi. More about Vo Trong Nghia uses perforated blocks to create decorative facade for Panasonic showroom
Patterned grills screen the windows of this terrazzo-covered house in Ho Chi Minh City, which has been designed by local studio Sanuki Daisuke Architects to make the most of the site's little natural light (+ slideshow). More about Hem House by Sanuki Daisuke features patterned window grilles and a hidden roof garden
A perforated brick screen shields a verdant courtyard at the entrance to this small two-storey house in Hanoi, Vietnam, designed by local studio Nghia Architect (+ slideshow). More about Perforated brick gable screens courtyard in front of compact Hanoi house
A large tiered garden forms the roof of this house in the coastal Vietnamese city Nha Trang, which architect Vo Trong Nghia designed in partnership with former colleague Masaaki Iwamoto (+ slideshow). More about Stepped garden tops House in Nha Trang by Vo Trong Nghia and Masaaki Iwamoto
Vietnamese studio Tropical Space has completed a cube-shaped sculpture workshop for artist Le Duc Ha, which hides an elaborate bamboo shelving grid behind its perforated brick walls (+ slideshow). More about Tropical Space uses perforated brickwork to build riverside pottery studio in Vietnam
A geometric facade formed of hollow concrete blocks allows breezes to naturally cool the interior of this house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, by local firm VACO Design (+ slideshow). More about H House features a geometric patterned facade and an indoor swimming pool
A three-storey-high atrium brings natural light and ventilation into the heart of this skinny house in Vietnam by Nguyen Khac Phuoc Architects (+ slideshow). More about Nguyen Khac Phuoc Architects completes four-metre-wide townhouse in Vietnam
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has designed a city hall for the Vietnamese city of Bac Ninh comprising a pair of planted towers, which lean together at the centre to frame a series of elevated viewing decks (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia Architects plans leaning, plant-covered towers for Bac Ninh city hall
Concrete blocks with triangular apertures allow light to filter into the rooms and courtyards of this house in Vietnam's Central Highlands, designed by local architects office Khuôn Studio (+ slideshow). More about Triangular openings pattern handmade concrete facade of Khuôn Studio's Kontum House
Vietnamese studio HA has completed a monastery-inspired home for a Buddhist family, featuring concrete-brick walls that are animated by patterns of light and shadow (+ slideshow). More about Zen House is a home for three Buddhists organised around a light-filled atrium
House-shaped rooms are connected by staircases and bridges inside this three-metre-wide house in Ho Chi Minh City, which was named House of the Year at the World Architecture Festival last month (+ slideshow). More about Saigon House by a21studio is filled with house-shaped rooms at different levels
Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a community centre of eight pavilions, each with intricate bamboo structures and thatched rooftops (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia creates bamboo and thatch domes for Diamond Island Community Centre
Vietnamese studio MM++ Architects has squeezed a contemporary shophouse into a four-metre-wide site in Ho Chi Minh City, with a facade that opens and closes like a giant shutter. More about Vietnamese shophouse by MM++ Architects features a facade that folds open
A thatched roof shaped like a giant parasol shelters this bamboo community centre by Vo Trong Nghia, which is built over a pond in a south Vietnam village (+ slideshow). More about Thatched "umbrella-like" roof tops bamboo community centre by Vo Trong Nghia
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has added three bamboo buildings with thatched roofs to the Naman Retreat in Vietnam, including a restaurant filled with huge trumpet-shaped columns (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia adds bamboo restaurant and beach bar to spa resort in Vietnam
Hanoi architecture office Studio 102 has transformed an incomplete house in the Vietnamese capital into an office for a landscape architecture firm, featuring plants that clamber over its slatted timber cladding (+ slideshow). More about Studio 102 converts an empty Hanoi house into a plant-covered office and showroom