Article source: AREP

Located in downtown Ho Chi Minh city, near the Saigon River, the programme includes a 68-storey office building with a shopping mall in its base. The outline of the tower, which is surrounded by a water feature, is reminiscent of a lotus flower. The platform of helicopters in door with forgery of 25 m reminds a petal of flower. The shape consists of a complex geometry, oblique cylinders taken back in facade with glass modules in curve and segmented. Its plastic aspect is strengthened at night by a white lighting which emphasizes the vertical leaf, the soffite of the platform and the pinnacle of the tower.

Financial Tower

• Architects: AREP (architect and design office team leader)
• Project: Financial Tower
• Location: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
• Client: BITEXCOLAND
• Beginning of the studies: 2006
• End of works: end of 2010
• Surface: 95 000 m²
• Estimated cost: 100 M€
• Project management: AREP (architect and design office team leader) / J.M. Duthilleul, E. Tricaud;Team: É. Dussiot (project director, team manager), A. Murray (architect, project manager), C. Lakeman, A. Vaz Correa ; ZAPATA (architect); I.D. Associés (interior architecture); L.E.R.A. (structure); D.S.A. (fluids), Barker Mohandas (elevators)

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