Five Star Group is holding a design contest for its two high-end resort projects in Vung Tau City, the Five Star Poseidon and the Five Star Odyssey.
The contest, organised in partnership with the Agritour and Green World, is named “Marine Architectural Icon Design Contest”.
Five Star Group aims to develop the two projects into icons of the Thuy Van road, which faces Vung Tau’s beach, one of the most beautiful in the country.
The international-standard resort projects are also expected to bring winds of change to Vung Tau’s economy and tourism.
The Five Star Poseidon and Five Star Odyssey are located at prime locations, which can cash in on key future infrastructure projects such as Long Thanh Airport, expressways and coastal roads connecting the southern region with the south central region, thus attracting international and domestic investors into the city.
They are large-scaled in terms of both height and construction area.
The Five Star Poseidon will have a height of 185 meters, including three basements and 43 floors, and a construction floor area of 216,100 square meters.
The figures for the Five Star Odyssey are 196.5 meters high, three basements, 50 floors and 185.12 square meters in construction floor area.
Tran Van Muoi, Chairman of Five Star Group and a member of the Vietnam Urban Development and Planning Association, said he highly values the powerful development potential in Vung Tau, with many untapped advantages, in addition to its strong connectivity with Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces.
“With the city’s natural advantages, synchronous transport infrastructure, diverse connections and the fact that Thuy Van coastal road has very few high-class commercial condotels, the Five Star Poseidon and Five Star Odyssey will become the city’s icons and strategic projects to beef up local tourism.”
The contest has attracted the participation of many pretigious companies with abundant experience in the field. The winning architecture should be optimal, most feasible and unique, the contest organisers said.
The judges include chief judge Tran Ngoc Chinh, former Deputy Minister of Construction and now Chairman of the Vietnam Urban Development Planning Association; Mai Trung Hung, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province’s Vice Director of Construction; and many veteran experts.
Hung said the two projects will make an important contribution to transforming the architectural appearance of Vung Tau and match the city’s goal of developing a modern, civilized and sustainable tourism sector.