Is Hanoi Museum too similar to foreign museums? The Hanoi Museum and the China Art Palace in Shanghai are the shape of inverted pyramids. Is this just a coincidence?   The Hanoi Museum.   The China Art Palace in Shanghai. Vietnamese netizens have recently discovered that the architecture of Vietnam’s most expensive Hanoi Museum and the China Art Palace, also known as China Art Museum in Shanghai, look very similar. China has many works that copied famous architecture such as the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe (France), Sphinx statue (Egypt), the Capitol, Disneyland park (USA) ... The similarity between the Hanoi Museum and the China Art Palace made many Vietnamese netizens suspect whether the two works were copies of each other. According to Wikipedia, the construction of China Art Palace started in December 2007, and was completed in February 2010, to serve the Shanghai Expo 2010 event. This building is located in Pudong district in Shanghai, with the shape of an inverted pyramid, dubbed the crown of Pudong. In Vietnam, the Hanoi Museum was built from 2008 to 2010 to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. Both works were completed in the same year. The Hanoi Museum was designed in inverted pyramid form, with four floors and two basements, built on a large area adjacent to the National Convention Centre in My Dinh, Tu Liem District, Hanoi. Architect Nguyen Truong Luu, Chairman of the HCM City Architects’ Association, told Tuoi Tre Newspaper that the similarity between the two works is normal in the world of architecture and it is not a copy of an idea. Slovak Radio Building. He said the image of an overturned pyramid had been used in architecture for a very long time. It is one of the basic shapes. This shape was used in modern works from 1950 - 1960. The exhibition house in Montreal in Canada (1967) and St.Petersburg Pier, Florida (1973) were the first projects using this type of architecture. Luu further explained that the use of inverted pyramid model in architecture is to solve the problems of lighting, energy and heat conditioning,and  structure... He gave a specific example of the Dallas City Hall building (USA) using the tilt of the glass to limit direct sunlight. The Hanoi Museum, similar to the Canada Water Library, limits direct light of the sun by the leaning part of the roof. The Louvre Museum (France) also uses an inverted pyramid shape in the basement, combining the pyramid on the roof to create skylights, getting light from outside. Dr. Tran Dinh Hieu, head of the architecture faculty of the Hue University of Sciences, also said that this was not a copy. He said that looking outside the two buildings have something similar. However, considering the structure, they are different. T. Van, VNN