Fosters masterplans high-rise Vietnamese neighbourhood

摘要

Foster Partners has been appointed to masterplan a high-rise district in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.The practice was hired as architectural advisor by Masterise Homes, the developer of Global City, a1.17ha neighbourhood in An Phu, part of the southern city’s emerging Thu Duc district.Thu Duc was founded in 2020 on a 211sq km site in the west of the city which is already home to amillion people. The government’s aim is that it will attract fintech, educational and IT businesses andstart-ups and that it will eventually contribute a third of Ho Chi Minh City’s gross regional domesticproduct.