Hanoi old French-style buildings to be examined for preservation

Thứ Ba, 11/04/2023, 09:44

More than 1,200 French-style buildings in the capital city of Hanoi, which were constructed before 1954, will be examined to evaluate their states, values and need for preservation.

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Hanoi old French-style buildings to be examined for preservation.

The Hanoi People's Committee has just issued plan No. 115/KH-UBND on surveying, assessing and verifying the quality of villas and some special architectural works. The purpose is to determine the level of deterioration and danger of the works in order to have solutions and plans to renovate and embellish old villas and other architectural works.

Earlier, the municipal People’s Committee issued a list of 1,253 buildings subject to management and use according to the regulations on management and use of old villas built before 1954 in Hanoi at the end of 2013.

In this list, there were 352 state-owned villas, 100 owned by organisations, 301 privately-owned villas and 500 villas of mixed ownership. The old villas are mainly concentrated in five districts including Ba Dinh (428 villas), Hoan Kiem (527 villas), Hai Ba Trung (270 villas), Tay Ho (14 villas) and Dong Da (14 villas).

Officials plan to update and reissue the list of villas and architectural works built before 1954 for more effective management and use.

In addition, the city also needs to review the management and maintenance of parks and flower gardens in the city to propose solutions for investment and post-investment management.

By TM