The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Renzo Piano Building Workshop's plans for an opera house in Vietnam. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features pearlescent opera house by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Architecture studios Renzo Piano Building Workshop and PTW Architects have broken ground on the Isola Della Musica opera house in Hanoi, which was designed to have a pearl-like appearance. More about Renzo Piano Building Workshop designs pearlescent opera house on Hanoi lake
Vietnamese studio ODDO Architects has found enough room for a five-storey family home on a backland plot measuring just four metres wide and six metres deep. More about ODDO Architects builds TH House on tiny infill plot in Hanoi
Vietnamese studio ODDO Architects has slotted a spacious family home into a narrow gap between two buildings in Hanoi. More about ODDO Architects builds five-storey CH House on four-metre-wide site in Hanoi
A walkable concrete roof on thin steel stilts connects and shades the textured brick blocks of a training centre in Hanoi by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. More about Elevated concrete pathway on stilts shades brick training centre in Hanoi
Perforated metal screens and plants cover the facade of a factory and office complex in Hanoi, Vietnam, designed by Studio VDGA for electronics manufacturer Star Engineers. More about Colourful metal screens and plants cover factory and offices in Hanoi
VAC Library by Farming Architects is a large wooden climbing frame that uses solar-powered aquaponics to keep vegetables, koi carp and chickens in Hanoi, Vietnam. More about Climbing-frame library in Vietnam has a thriving aquaponics system
Plants, trees and a pond introduce greenery into this cafe in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, designed by local studio Le House as a relaxing place to escape from the city's busy streets. More about Le House fills An'garden Cafe with plants to create an oasis in bustling Hanoi
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed a house in Hanoi featuring walls made from different types of rammed earth, and gabled roofs incorporating planters used to grow fruit trees. More about Fruit trees grow from the roofs of Vo Trong Nghia's stripy rammed-earth house
Behind the scalloped facade of the Koi Cafe in Hanoi, Farming Architects has created a fish pond, an indoor waterfall and a rooftop vegetable patch that exists in a self sustaining eco-system. More about Hanoi cafe features indoor waterfalls, koi-carp ponds and an aquaponics vegetable patch
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed an office building at Hanoi's FPT University, featuring gridded facades that incorporate recessed windows shaded by trees. More about Vo Trong Nghia incorporates trees into chequerboard facade of Hanoi university building
Australian architecture studio DeciBel has unveiled plans for a cultural complex in Hanoi, featuring six bulb-like structures to reference a floating lotus flower. More about DeciBel proposes "lotus-like" theatre and cultural centre for Hanoi
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
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
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
Climbing plants grow across a steel trellis that fronts this renovated house in Hanoi by Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). More about Green Renovation by Vo Trong Nghia offers verdant urban living
Swiss architecture firm Bureau A created a seven-storey mobile performance space and street kitchen, mounted it on a tricycle and rode it round the streets of Hanoi in Vietnam (+ movie). More about Ta đi Ôtô mini-skyscraper on a tricycle by Bureau A
A narrow atrium brings daylight into windowless rooms on four storeys at this renovated house in Hanoi by Vietnamese office AHL Architects Associates. More about 4.5x20 House by AHL Architects Associates
This spiralling stone house in Vietnam by architect Vo Trong Nghia has grass on its roof and an oval courtyard at its centre (+ slideshow). More about Stone House by Vo Trong Nghia
Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has hidden a bamboo-framed conference centre behind a fortified stone wall in the countryside outside Hanoi (+ slideshow). More about Dailai Conference Hall by Vo Trong Nghia Architects