12/10/2026
VIAWARDS 2026 NOMINEE: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Vietnam International Awards
🎉VIAWARDS 2026 NOMINEE: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AWARD
Thuc Trang Dang is an architect, urban planner, and landscape architect, and the founder of Scene Plus in Ho Chi Minh City. Qualified in Hanoi in 1999, she trained in France in heritage and landscape at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and in urbanism at the Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris on a French Government scholarship, and also holds an MBA from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her practice is built on listening first: a week spent in a fishing village, hearing what residents feared losing, taught her to arrive with a question rather than answers.
That approach shaped the Nhon Ly conservation and sustainable tourism plan, where community consultation resolved a dispute over a village cemetery and turned the site into a 15.19-hectare public park. It also guides her work at Lang Song, where community-based tourism helps conserve a heritage site linked to the spread of Quoc Ngu, and at Quy Nhon University, where she designed and built the KC4 Knowledge Gate. She shares her method through field workshops with Hanoi Architectural University and French architecture schools and serves on an Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie expert commission.
Her key achievements include:
💫Silver Prize, Viet Nam National Architecture Award 2024 to 2025, for the Nhon Ly plan, as first author.
💫American Planning Association International Division 2023 Excellence in Public Involvement Award, for the Lang Song and Nhon Ly planning work.
💫Eight planning instruments prepared under her direction approved between 2018 and 2025.
💫Nhon Ly plan includes social housing for 1,468 of 2,737 planned residents.
💫KC4 Knowledge Gate remained standing through Typhoon Kalmaegi in November 2025.
💫Co-authored a proposal for 42 multifunctional parks along the Saigon River.
Learn more about Trang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thuc-trang-dang-55995713/
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🏆Winners will be announced at the VIAwards ceremony gala:
🗓Date: 7 November 2026
📍Location: Kimpton Fitzroy London, 1-8 Russell Sq, London
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