Thisofic Tower or formerly Sofic Tower, initially named as Zone IIA Tower or Zone IIA HCMC, is a complex building in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. At its completion in 2019, it was the first mixed-used and office building to be inaugurated in the Sala City urban development, also the Thủ Thiêm new urban area (briefly called Thủ Thiêm Area). The tower has tally 20 floors with a height of 119 m with 4 basements.
The building is invested and owned by Đại Quang Minh Real Estate Investment Corporation [vi] (Công ty cổ phần đầu tư địa ốc Đại Quang Minh; simply called Đại Quang Minh), a subsidiary of THACO. It is located on Mai Chí Thọ Boulevard (East–West Highway), Thủ Thiêm, Thủ Đức (the former address before 2021 is An Lợi Đông, District 2) and is a part of the Zone IIA complex, a twin-building complex area comprising the lots 5-4 and 5-5 of functional area No. 5 of Thủ Thiêm urban area with the current completed building is in the latter lot, surrounded by streets of Mai Chí Thọ – Nguyễn Cơ Thạch – Hoàng Thế Thiện & D6; and the former is a showroom of THACO AUTO BMW temporarily, it is opposite the building by Nguyễn Cơ Thạch Street and borders with "Catfish" Canal Park (Công viên Rạch Cá Trê; now is Sala Park) but already planned for a building that has similar design and connected by a glass bridge.
History At the end of 2014, Đại Quang Minh Company invested in main 4 axis roads that cost 8,265 billion VND in Thủ Thiêm Area with a total length of 11.9 km, including: R1 Crescent Boulevard (now Trần Bạch Đằng Boulevard (3.4 km), R2 Central Lake road (now Tố Hữu Street) (3 km), R3 Saigon Riverside Road (now Nguyễn Thiện Thành Street) (3 km), and R4 Elevated Road passing swamp area (now is Bùi Thiện Ngộ Street (2.5 km) with 8 bridges and 2 viaduct on the street) also the Thủ Thiêm Central Square & Riverside Park, Ba Son Bridge and Southern Delta Swamp Park Project (Vùng Châu thổ phía Nam) through a BT form, an alternative form of BOT. This BT form leads to the government traded an over 100 hectares of the Functional Area 5 and 6 in the southeast of Thủ Thiêm Peninsula to build the Sala City urban development, including the Sofic Tower.
Sofic Tower, temporary initial name is Thaco Office – Commercial – Service Building (shortly called Thaco Complex), was groundbreaking in September 21, 2015 and was expected to completed in Q3/2017. However, it was until two years later in Q3/2019, the office tower block was completed and three years later in November 2022, the podium was completed with the inauguration of Thiso Mall (initially known as Socar Mall), Thiskyhall Sala Convention Center and the Emart underground supermarket.
Features Sofic Tower comprises a 13-story office tower block with an 8-story podium for mall and convention center that entirely in the lot, sharing the 4 basements with 3 from the bottom are used for parking. The building is also headquarters of THACO and its subsidiaries from Level 16 to 18. Level AreaUse 20 Mechanical level 8–19 Office space tenant area (Mechanical area for the podium at Level 8) 7 Thiskyhall Sala Convention CenterRestaurant auxiliary area6Stellar Hall, Mechanical area for office building5Grand Skylar Hall, Solar Hall and Sky Garden Café 4 Thiso Mall SalaRestaurants, Metashow Lighting Exhibition, Smoking room3Galaxy Cinema, FAHASA Book store, F&B, Household appliances store, Kids stores, Oppo Experience Store, Game Arcade and Playzone2Fashion, Accessories, Cosmetics, Jewelry1Office tenant area lobby, information counter, F&B, Fashion, Accessories, Cosmetics, Jewelry, Dyson storeB1Emart Sala Supermarket, food court, photobooth, Kidscamp – Children play's areaB2–B4Parking lots (Medical room in B2) Awards The building was nominated twice at Ashui Awards for Future Project of The Year in 2018 as Zone IIA HCMC and Building of The Year in 2023, it was in the top 5 most voted for both categories (the latter was runner-up). Gallery
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