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Saigon South

Design/Completion 1993/ongoing

Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam

Central Trading and Development Corporation

Saigon South extends for 11 miles along a new roadway that connects a new deepwater port and export processing zonę to the regional road system and international airport. The centerpiece of the project is the 988-acre mixed-use New City Center, planned to accommodate over 100,000 people by the year 2000. Futurę projects will include rcsearch and development facilities for high-tech industry, several universitics, a regional medical center, a sports stadium, and community parks and open space.

The planning concept of a “city of islands” preserves the district’s many existing canals and landscape features as a framework for development. At the same time it allows for incremental growth that provides a sense of completion at every phase.

1    Entcring Saigon South via the new roadway

2    The Crescent Promenadę crcates a sense of identity for the Crescent District

3    Watcrfront parks framc the arrival by water-taxi to the city's Central District

4    Saigon South is a city of islands

5    The New City Center

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