Top famous architectural works in Ho Chi Minh City of VIET NAM #3
The names Independence Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, and Nha Rong Wharf are certainly no longer strange to us. Those memorable places carry great significance for the country's history and for peace and independence. Therefore, the above places have unique and long-standing architecture that attracts many domestic and foreign tourists who want to visit. Today, I will introduce to readers the top famous architectural works in Ho Chi Minh.
People's Committee headquarters
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee headquarters is one of the classic architectural works in Ho Chi Minh City, built from 1898 to 1909. During the French colonial period, this building was called Hotel de ville. in French or Dinh Xa Tay in Vietnamese. During the Republic of Vietnam, it was called Saigon City Hall because it was the working and meeting place of the capital government. Since the reunification of Vietnam until now, the building has been the workplace of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City. The current address is 86 Le Thanh Ton Street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, located right at the beginning of Nguyen Hue Street facing the Saigon River.
This work was designed by architect Femand Gardè to simulate the Paris city hall in the style of bell towers in Northern France, with the middle part being a high pointed tower, two sides with two floors of opposite roofs, on the left and the right side of the building is lower than the rest. 
The facade design of the building has a mixture of many European architectural styles such as Renaissance architectural floor plan, Baroque and Rococo-style relief decoration, Art Nouveau-style iron doors... A trio of bas-reliefs. The sculpture on the building (middle and left, right) is the national personification of the Goddess Marianne - considered the embodiment of the French Republic, representing the values of freedom, equality, fraternity, and rejection. love.
Nha Rong Harbor
Nha Rong Wharf is located on the Saigon River and was built in 1864, in the area near Khanh Hoi Bridge, now located at No. 01 Nguyen Tat Thanh, Ward 12, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City. Located right at the gateway to the busiest commercial port in the country, in front of the windy Bach Dang River, the entire harbor is the place that contributes to making the city more sparkling and splendid when the city lights up. The building has a pair of dragons mounted on the roof facing the moon according to ancient Vietnamese architecture, so it is often called the Dragon house.
This place was built in 1863 and was used by the French as the Saigon commercial port headquarters at that time. It was here, during the years of resistance against the French and the Americans, that the city's people organized protests and strikes to protest against the colonial government and its henchmen. After many years, although it has been renovated according to Western architectural style, it has not obscured its ancient appearance.
Nha Rong Wharf is currently the Ho Chi Minh Museum - one of the branches in the system of Ho Chi Minh Museums and souvenirs nationwide with 3 galleries, after two revisions (1990, 1995). ) now has 09 rooms with 1482.62m2 of display area, 02 warehouses preserving 10,927 documents, artifacts and hundreds of artifacts displayed outdoors. The museum is a place that regularly organizes widespread educational propaganda activities such as: scientific conferences, intergenerational discussions, topical talks on President Ho Chi Minh, introductions and screenings of private films. documents, memoirs, publications about President Ho Chi Minh and the Museum, printing calendars, organizing admission to Party, Youth Union, and Teams, organizing competitions to learn about the President's biography and revolutionary career Ho Chi Minh... The museum is also an ideal meeting place for organizations and groups to participate in traditional activities, study, and play; is the venue for the launching ceremonies of many of the City's vibrant mass movements. Today, the city government. Ho Chi Minh is increasingly trying to display and renovate museums more vividly and richly to attract domestic and foreign tourists.
Ho Chi Minh City History Museum
Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History is located at 2 Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, next to the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden. This is a place to preserve and display tens of thousands of precious artifacts collected inside and outside Vietnam. The museum was built in the "innovated Indochina" architectural style, designed by French architect Delaval, and implemented by the contractor Etablissements Lamorte Saigon in three years 1926 - 1927 - 1928. When construction started (1926), This building was intended to be the Mexican Exhibition Institute, then planned to be the Economic Exhibition Institute, but in the end it was decided to be the Blanchard de la Brosse Museum.
The middle part of the Museum has an octagonal block (reminiscent of the concept of the eight trigrams of the I Ching) with 2 roofs covered with tube tiles, with stylized phoenix and dragon decorations attached. At the top, there are 4 spheres gradually getting smaller and placed on top of each other. Therefore, some people believe that this roof contains many elements of ancient Chinese architecture. In 1970, the Museum was built an additional part behind a row of houses designed by architect Nguyen Ba Lang. The row of houses is U-shaped, in the middle is an open-air ornamental pond, two rows of houses connect the two sides, and finally there is a row of three-storey houses with two layers of roof, with decorative dragon heads attached to the corners of the roof. Thanks to all the doors facing the ornamental lake, the showroom is quite airy and bright.
Above are famous works in Ho Chi Minh City. I hope the article has provided you with some understanding about these architectural works. If you have the opportunity to visit magnificent Saigon, please stop to explore these architectural works!
