Hung Dien

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Community Information

  • Developer: Tan Hung Development (Vietnam)1
  • Architects: BAUM Architects (Korea), O’Connor Construction Management Inc. (USA)2
  • Size: 60 hectares1
  • Type of housing: Apartments1

Themes

A Brighter Future

  • ”Investment to build projects like Hung Dien New Town are very necessary to reduce population pressure and upgrade the quality of the people.”2

Balance, Community, and Harmony

  • “The most prominent point at Hung Dien New Town is the marina… After tired labor hours, everybody can set free their soul into the cool wind together with relatives… Make a mini traveling tour along the canal, visit trade villages and riverside garden houses, which are both romantic and avoid loud city noises.”1

  • “We want to build Hung Dien New Town to become a modern urban city where dwellers can approach all services and the most superior benefits without having to go anywhere.”1

  • ”Foreign businessmen come here for meetings. Business partners rest at the hotel and study the culture. If they want to change air , they can stroll around the commercial center or supermarket to enjoy local special food or buy Vietnamese souvenirs.2

Location: Exclusive and Secure – Separate but Connected

  • Hung Dien has “blood vessels connecting the city with the Southwest Province.”1

  • “Hung Dien New Town serves as a nice oasis. Two pure rivers not only bring cool winds but also are ideal places to relax for city dwellers if they want to “change wind.”2

  • “Life of high people needs to be served by the highest ranked services.”2

Organic

  • “An ideal paradise to enjoy life mixed with nature.”2

  • “The Tan Hung company will try it best to add lawns and cover internal roads and parks with thick verdure. Look from the high upside, Hung Dien New Town includes buildings mixed in the middle of green leaf canopy rising to the deep blue sky.”2

Media

Image 1 from www.hungdiennewtown.com; Images 2-12 from www.tanhungco.com

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Sources

1Tan Hung Development, “Hung Dien,” Hung Dien New Town, accessed November 28, 2013, http://www.hungdiennewtown.com/.

2Tan Hung Joint Stock Company, “Tan Hung,” Tan Hung Development, accessed November 28, 2013, http://www.tanhungco.com/?pgid=home&lang=en.

This research sponsored by National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Program Award No. BCS-1026754.