Practicing Feng Shui

Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam is the city of exotic temples and majestic pagodas, it appears as a true embodiment of the unity and conflict of opposites: ancient structures coexist with the elegant colonial villas, and wide almost European boulevards – with narrow and bustling eastern streets. Hanoi is located in the delta of the Hong River (Red River). Today, it is a real face of modern Vietnam – economic, cultural and commercial center of the country. It is vigorous and noisy, but still amazingly beautiful and certainly bearing no resemblance to effervescence of metropolises in Western countries.

However, in recent years there are on the uptick construction of new highrises, creating in the city new vertical landmarks – multimeter towers of various purposes. Hotels and offices, government buildings and transportation hubs – all this radically reshaping the Vietnamese capital before our very eyes. There are already erected entire neighborhoods of high-rise residential buildings and business centres.

The tallest building in Vietnam is the 70-storey Landmark 72 in Hanoi, which was completed in 2011 at the height of 345 meters (1,132 ft). It is followed by Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower 2 (212 m) and Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower 3 (212 meters).

In the near future the city skyline will be replenished with one more, though not as large-scale structure – 174-meter tower – the telecommunications company VNTA Headquarters, which is designed by the Japanese architectural firm Nikken Sekkei. It will be erected on a place of an existing office of the company, creating a single architectural ensemble of the old building with the new one.

Construction work is scheduled to begin in September this year. Project site is located in the Cau Giay district of Hanoi where remarkable development is taking place and where is built the Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower.

Having excellent access to transportation, it takes only 20 minutes to Hanoi airport. The vistas from the tower encompass the extensive forest to the north, planned to be developed as large park soon. Not only hyper modern but blessed also with a rich natural outlook, this project site is indeed a very desirable place for the VNTA head office.

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