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Spanish architectural firm opens office in HCM City
Spanish architectural firm Global Architecture Local Office opened an office in HCM City, its first in Asia, on Wednesday.
GALO Viet Nam would focus on city planning and living space, including hotels and resorts, accoring to the company’s general director, Carlos Garcia Lorente.
"To prepare one’s personal vision for the urban design and development of a city, one must have a good sense of what the city currently is," Lorente said.
The firm opened the office after several trips to assess Viet Nam’s economic performance and its design and construction industry last year.
Lorente said the description of one’s personal image of a city was important as a means to determine differences in perceptions of images.
"While I might find HCM City to be a very stimulating intensive environment, my neighbours might think [it] is too messy and chaotic.
"It is these differences in perceptions that are important to lay out and explore to determine the basis for change in the environment that people can agree upon and make happen."
GALO did not have any favourite projects or sectors when it came to undertaking work in this country, he said.
"We will not consider office buildings because it’s a bad time to invest in projects of this sort due to the global recession," he said, however.
Bernando de Pablo, general director of GALO Architects International, said the company would help bring Spanish investors to Viet Nam in the next few years.
Chau My Anh, deputy president of the HCM City Architecture Association, said Vietnamese architects would now have the opportunity to learn from their Spanish colleagues’ experience.
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