The exhibition "The Strange Traveler or the Story of Rejected Projects" includes 24 models, designs, and constructions that were canceled for many humorous reasons, attracting many young people in Hanoi to visit. Here, viewers will be able to admire all the humorous reasons for the completed projects that were rejected by the investors.
Design of the 2018 district children's palace for the reason it was canceled: Looks too strange, stranger than the provincial children's palace
Although labeled as "failure" or "rejected", the designs introduced in the exhibition actually made artists, architects, art lovers, and curious people admire the soaring, pioneering ideas that go beyond conventional architectural thinking.
This is considered a strange thing in architecture, because without construction, these 24 designs are 24 original ideas, 24 pure experiments, completely free creative ideas of the architect and have not been affected by any requests for concessions or modifications from any other entity.
"There must be some truth in the things that were not accepted. If that is true, then we should look back and think more about the things that were rejected instead of leaving them aside," architect Nguyen Ha shared about his exhibition.
The exhibition brings to viewers the laughable reasons why investors reject an architect's design.
At the exhibition "The Strange Traveler or the Story of Rejected Projects", visitors were made to laugh by the extremely humorous reasons. Specifically: the investor thought the design was too open, too free; the construction in the planning area had to be demolished; the investor was involved in a famous lawsuit, so sad that he stopped building; the bidding documents were late; refused to design a road big enough for cars to go all the way to the door...
Join Travellive to admire some of architect Nguyen Ha's rejected designs in the exhibition "The Strange Traveler or the Story of Rejected Projects":
The investor calculated that building a hotel would not be economically efficient.
Hotel design, investor refused because recalculation found that building a hotel is not economically efficient.
The investor's sales and marketing team was confused about how to sell this design.
The investor rejected the worker's boarding house because he did not think it was a boarding house.
The exhibition attracts young people to participate.
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The Strange Traveler or the Story of Rejected Projects
Address: Manzi exhibition space - No. 2 Hang Bun Lane, Hanoi
Time: from July 30 to August 21, 2022 (11am - 7pm, Tuesday - Sunday)
Open to the public
