Figure 16: 2 Ton That Tung Street, 2015.rhttps://journals.openedition.org/abe/docannexe/image/3630/img-16.jpgrr31Continuing our survey of Ho Chi Minh City, a building (fig. 15) at 2 Ton That Tung not only has rounded corners but appears almost as a spherical tower. Its numerous awning windows in various sizes, along with concrete awnings, form a significant design component, and on the concrete façade is a pattern of rectangles. On the top floor, the interior section is receded and surrounded by balconies with thin columns. Such thin columns are similar to those visible on the top floors of numerous buildings of the city, including bank buildings and the Catinat building discussed above. Finally, a building on Nguyen Hue Boulevard currently housing Saigontourist, next to the Artex building, is notable for a repeated pattern of triple horizontal white bands and playful vertical decorative textures.rr—————–rrRecent Buildings With Rounded Cornersrhttps://journals.openedition.org/abe/3630#ftn32rr32In central Ho Chi Minh City, on Dong Khoi and nearby streets, are a number of recently built high-rises that also feature rounded corners. The seven-story Huong Sen Hotel at 6670 Dong Khoi Street which opened in 1993 and renovated in 2012, also has a rounded corner along all floors, at Dong Khoi and Mac Thi Buoi streets. Parkson Saigontourist Plaza at 35 bis45 Le Thanh Ton Street, at the intersection with Dong Khoi Street, also has a curved corner all along the six-story façade. The Sheraton Hotel, built in 2003 next to the Caravelle Hotel, includes several narrow, curved corners, two of them on upper floors only. The prominently curved corner of the Artex building completed in 2007,42 at 161 Dong Khoi Street across the street from the Caravelle Hotel, is topped with a dome, which echoes the tower-like shape and the dome of the Grand Hotel several blocks further south. At Lamson Square near the Municipal Theater, the five-star Park Hyatt Hotel, which ope
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