According to an official of the Commitee, an urban renewal project on the two streets will be started in the middle of this month. Specifically, the park before and behind the Opera House will be renovated. After that, work on premises in the crossings between Le Loi and Nguyen Hue streets will be kicked off.
As planned, the work will be implemented with heed of surrounding landscape and scenery and President Ho Chi Minh’s statue, and expected to be finished in the second quarter of this year.
A corner of Nguyen Hue walking street. (Photo: Thanh Nien)
This renewal project focuses on landscape in the airspace of the crossing as well as design by dividing the special space to ensure open space for traffic and good vision as well as solemnity in front of Uncle Ho’s statue.
The city will build a tranquil pond with artistic sculpture and waterfall as landscape highlight and transferring space between headquarter of People’s Committee and the commercial and tourist areas in the two streets of Nguyen Hue and Le Loi.
In addition to site clearance for the first metro project, HCMC authorities will redesign all architectural landscape of Le Loi street to ensure connection of public space on the ground and underground for construction of Ben Thanh- Suoi Tien metro line.
With other architectural constructions, Nguyen Hue walking street, and park in front of the city’s Opera House and waterfall in the intersection between Nguyen Hue and Le Loi will form a public space and attractive destination for local residents and tourists.
The urban renewal project is a part of the plan of renewing the city downtown in 2011-2012 made by the municipal Department of Planning and Architecture and Idom Company, which is a multi-national consulting, engineering and architecture service provider based in Spain.
