Thanh Long Bay Gallery

Thanh Long Bay Gallery is a coastal gallery on the Vietnamese shoreline, beside the famous Ke Ga Lighthouse, with interior design by Le Vu Hai Trieu, Nguyen Thi Thao Suong and Le Ho Ngoc Thao, concept design by Truong Nguyen Quoc Trung and Nguyen Tan Phat, and chief architect Nguyen Hoang Manh. The gallery is intended to act as a welcoming hall, giving arriving visitors a warm first impression of the coast. Because its primary function is exhibition space, the architects keep the interior as clean and simple as possible, so that the works and the view can carry the experience. The core idea is to offer the widest possible coastal panorama: in every independent room of the gallery, the architects design long, horizontal full-view window frames, so that visitors inside can take in the horizon to the maximum. Responding to the possibility of hurricanes along the Vietnamese coast, the team also designs a variable-depth awning device that protects the interiors while allowing the horizontal opening to remain openable. The ambition is that the horizontal openings fuse inside and outside, so that the clean gallery interior, the dense surrounding natural vegetation and the distant sea view merge seamlessly. Each independent space varies slightly in its daylight and viewing angle, so that visitors experience the Vietnamese coastline from multiple positions rather than a single frame. An open corridor links the separate rooms, letting visitors better enjoy the pleasant outdoor climate between exhibitions. Through these layered details, the architects hope the visit to Thanh Long Bay Gallery becomes a warm memory of the coast.