CỬA Reframing Urban Memory: COLLECTIVE: Architecture as Threshold Between https://tuoitre.vn/nld/phong-su-ky-su/bat-bien-o-quan- chuong-20101002085837364.htm Past and Present Ô How can architecture engage with collective urban memory without freezing it...
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CỬA Reframing Urban Memory: COLLECTIVE: Architecture as Threshold Between https://tuoitre.vn/nld/phong-su-ky-su/bat-bien-o-quan- chuong-20101002085837364.htm Past and Present Ô How can architecture engage with collective urban memory without freezing it into nostalgia? COLLECTIVE: This project investigates the his- toric city gates of Hanoi, known as Cửa Ô, as spatial and cultural thresholds caught between pres- ervation and erasure. Originally numbering 21 gates under the Nguyễn dynasty (1866), these GATE: Ô QUAN Located at the intersection of Ô Quan Chưởng, Hàng Chiếu, Thanh boundaries were progressively dismantled and rewritten through CHƯỞNG Hà, Đào Duy Tư streets, in the east- ern part of Hanoi’s Old Quarter. COLLECTIVE: French colonisation from 1873 During King Lê Hiến Tông’s reign, onward, leaving behind not mon- Built in 1749 once the point where the city met uments, but invisible lines em- the river, where traders, soldiers, bedded in the city’s memory and and civilians passed
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