The Cafe Apartment at forty-two Nguyen Hue Street is a nine-story residential block that reveals itself as a vertical grid of glowing shop windows and balconies when seen from the street. Built in the mid-nineteen sixties, the building…
Saigon Mid-Century Modernism Walk
This walk reveals the clean lines, concrete ventilation grilles, and geometric shapes of southern Vietnamese modernism that defined Saigon's post-independence golden age.
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1. The Cafe Apartment
2. Thư Viện Khoa Học Tổng Hợp - 69 Lý Tự Trọng
The General Sciences Library is marked by a distinctive fourteen-story square tower rising forty-three meters into the air, which serves as a vertical storage block for its vast collection of books and documents. This concrete tower,…
3. Independence Palace
Independence Palace is a broad, angular modernist structure located at one hundred thirty-five Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street. It stands on the former site of the French colonial Norodom Palace, which was demolished after a nineteen sixty-two…
4. University of Architecture HCMC (UAH)
The Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture is recognizable by its primary campus building on Pasteur Street, which was constructed in nineteen seventy-two. This structure originated as the final year project of a student named Trương…
5. Ho Chi Minh City Youth Cultural House
The Ho Chi Minh City Youth Cultural House sits at number four Pham Ngoc Thach Street, occupying a site bounded by Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Hai Ba Trung, and Nguyen Van Chiem streets. Established on September fourth, nineteen seventy-five, the…
6. Turtle Lake
Turtle Lake is a circular traffic roundabout and public park defined by five tall, curved concrete pillars that rise thirty-four meters into the air. Officially known as International Square, this intersection of Pham Ngoc Thach, Vo Van…