A kindergarten in Vietnam

via designboom.com | photos © Hiroyuki Oki

Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon, is a Vietnamese city whose society has progressed in such fast pace, leaving marks even on construction and architecture. Some common practices include deliberately reconditioning old existing buildings and giving them new functional and aesthetic purposes. This is normally done by accompanying a more complex spatial demand, with limited resources, and time. Despite these constraints, local-based architectural practice Kientruc-O transformed an old monolithic space, into a bright, exuberant, and full of vitality kindergarten, a place that fosters the new generation of Vietnamese people.
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