HANOI, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese painter Nguyen Thu Thuy has won the silver trophy of the International A'Design Awards, the world's largest and most internationally dispersed design awards, for her ceramic designs for Mirror House in Hanoi's Thong Nhat Park.
Thuy's ocean-inspired work was awarded the prize in the category of Social Design for Environment, Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Her ceramic designs helped renovated the degraded Mirror House, which was built in 1979 in the shape of a huge snail shell, into an artistic structure.
The annual award received nearly 2,000 nominations from about 100 countries this year, according to organizers.
