With no wood-fired kilns left, Vietnam's UNESCO-listed ancient town patches its roofs with tin and tarps
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Hoi An’s UNESCO-listed old town is seeing tarps and metal roofing replace traditional yin-yang tiles and open-air lightwells. The changes are damaging the historic streetscape, amid the loss of wood-fired kilns used to make traditional roofing materials.
Tarps and metal roofing are encroaching on the yin-yang tiled roofs and open-air lightwells of Hoi An's old houses, spoiling the heritage landscape of the UNESCO-listed town in central Vietnam.
World Real Estate Travel Hoi An heritage conservation UNESCO traditional roofs wood-fired kilns historic architecture