The Saigon Planning Exhibition Center (center) and Saigon One Tower (left) are two of Ho Chi Minh City’s most famous abandoned construction projects. (Christopher Otis, August 2020)

Saigon’s Unfinished Buildings

A photo-essay highlighting some of the abandoned projects that help shape Ho Chi Minh City’s unique and ever-changing urban landscape.

Ho Chi Minh City, the commercial and financial center of Vietnam, is a bustling, rapidly modernizing megacity. Still colloquially known as Saigon, its former name from prior to the…