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HCMC Building 2

This building houses the Raffles International College at 117 Nguyễn Văn Trỗi street in Ho Chi Minh City. This Raffles is a branch of the Raffles College of Design and Commerce based in Sydney, Australia. The building is setback from... Read more →

The most beautiful café or coffeehouse in Vietnam

My obsession with large cafés in HCMC continues -- I have now found the MOST beautiful cafe in Ho Chi Minh City, the LaDo Café. The location, however, is as far out of the inner city as it can get... Read more →

Building Construction Week 9

This will probably be the last post on this subject for the next two or three months. The site is empty now -- this past week, the pile testing contractor finished testing the third pile and then took away all... Read more →

HCMC Building 1

I am beginning to see more interesting buildings designed by Vietnamese architects, in addition to the many houses I see. Here is the first in a new series: Getting beyond modernism with this experiment in window treatment. It will be... Read more →

Building Construction Week 8

Jon over at the blog It's the final word commented on last week's posting about construction that I "must be the only man in Saigon who actually enjoys having a large scale construction project behind his house..." Yes, it's true... Read more →

Building Construction Week 7

All of the big concrete blocks that had been brought to the site were put to use this past week as the pile testing contractor set up a frame and piled the blocks on. The frame was set up so... Read more →