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Art Deco – Streamline Building – Saigon

“At the end of this section of Dong Khoi Street, at the intersection with Dong Du Street, is a four-story modernist building at 80 Dong Khoi. While the first two floors were recently renovated, the top floor’s original façade is still preserved. Its strong horizontal lines, including a projecting horizontal band along the top portion of the building, a wide rounded corner, and small circular windows recalling the nautical themes of Streamline Moderne [..]. Small minimalist slits with green bands around them, echoing the green horizontal bands above them and the green color of the frame of the circular windows, add to the whimsical charm of the building.”
Text by H. Hazel Hahn, Professor of History, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USA. Legal CC