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Friday, February 10, 2012

Ben Thanh Twin Tower iz kumming 2 town

Bitexco is inaugurating its Ben Thanh Twin Tower construction project in Quarter 1 this 2012. I saw they started to destroy current old houses in the building site before Tet. The site has an area of 8600 m2, locating opposite to Ben Thanh Market, the cultural icon of HoChiMinh city.
This 55-storey building is advertised to have the shape of two arising dragons. It's even more ridiculous they say that's an icon of Vietnam. These dragons will rise into the sky with two pearls (?) in their mouths and looking wide to all over the city.



The project caused dissatisfaction when making compensation for residents in the area. It is also considered to have gone approved before the master plan. Well, finally it is being built and the city is having another thing to show off.

2 comments:

2306 said...

The designs are hideous! If they're going to build such buildings, they should reconsider the designs. It has no good representations of the city nor any culture concept, and barely looks like anything like dragons. It's ridiculous that they're aiming to make it look like dragons.

Unknown said...

HI, I agree with you. All my colleagues said the same thing.

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