Hanoi Towers

This article is about the complex buildings in the City of Hanoi. For the mathematical disk game, see Tower of Hanoi.

The Hanoi Towers or Hanoi Tower Center (Vietnamese: Tháp Hà Nội, Tháp Trung tâm Hà Nội) is a complex building in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. The building is located on the land which was mostly part of Hỏa Lò Prison and surrounded by three streets are Hai Bà Trưng, Quán Sứ and Thợ Nhuộm. It comprises an 14-story office building basically called as Hanoi Tower or The Office (of Hanoi Towers), with a dual-block 27-story apartment hotel building, Somerset Grand Hanoi. The investor and operator of the complex is the Singapore-based The Ascott Limited, a subsidiary of CapitaLand.

Hanoi Towers
Tháp Hà Nội, Tháp Trung tâm Hà Nội
Hanoi Towers looked from Quán Sứ street
Alternative names	Hanoi Tower Center Somerset Grand Hanoi
Hotel chain	Somerset by The Ascott Limited
Record height
Tallest in Hanoi from 1997 to 2007[I]
Preceded by	Hanoi Daewoo Hotel
Surpassed by	34T Trung Hoà–Nhân Chính
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office, hotels, serviced apartments
Architectural style	Postmodern
Location	French Quarter, Hoàn Kiếm
Address	49 Hai Bà Trưng street, Trần Hưng Đạo ward, Hoàn Kiếm district
Town or city	Hanoi
Country	Vietnam
Coordinates	21.025660°N 105.845724°E / 21.025660; 105.845724
Year(s) built	2
Construction started	June 1995[1]
Completed	November 1995
Inaugurated	December 1997; 27 years ago (1997-12)[2]
Owner	CapitaLand
Landlord	Hanoi Tower Center Co., Ltd
Technical details
Floor count	Hanoi Tower: 14 Somerset Grand Hanoi: 27
Floor area	45,000 m2 (484,376 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architecture firm	RDC Architects
Services engineer	Electrical Works Plumbing & Sanitary Works
Main contractor	Ssangyong E&C
Other information
Number of rooms	185
Parking	2 underground floors

Since the building was completed, the Somerset Grand Hanoi Tower was the highest building in Hanoi until 2007, when the apartment building 34T Trung Hòa — Nhân Chính in Cầu Giấy District completed. However, the building is still the highest one in Hoàn Kiếm District, as the city's government has ordered a height limit on new buildings in the historic downtown area since 2021.^[3]

History

Before the mid-1990s, the area of the building now was mostly part of Hỏa Lò Prison.^[4][5] After breaking the part of the prison, the complex was started to build in mid of 1995 and inaugurated in late 1997.

Towers use

Offices

The office tower of the complex, Hanoi Tower with the podium frontier on Hai Bà Trưng Street, is currently the location for some of major company offices are AIG, BIDV, Cathay Pacific, Cathay United Bank, IWG plc (formerly Regus), KfW, Malaysia Airlines, NH Investment & Securities, Ocean Bank

Embassies

The office tower also home of some embassies, including:

• Embassy of Norway, 8th Floor
• Embassy of Belgium, 9th Floor
• Embassy of Israel, 10th Floor

Retail and services

The podium is the common space for offices and retail, the Hanoi Towers Shopping Center is located here on the side of Thợ Nhuộm street and Hanoi Tower Wedding & Convention Center on Hai Bà Trưng Street, including: Wayne's Coffee, Unik Mart.

Swimming pool and tennis court is on the roof of the podium

Gallery

• 
  The building main entrance seen from Quán Sứ Street
• 
  Somerset Grand Hanoi with The Supreme Court on Hai Bà Trưng Street