From a shortlist of 6 international design firms, Sasaki, a global practice with offices in Boston and Shanghai, and enCity, an international planning practice based in Singapore and Vietnam, were awarded first place for The Highly Interactive Innovation District.
During the workshop, enCity’s Founder and Group Managing Director- Mr. Nguyen Do Dzung raised 8 core issues that are often encountered in local planning in Vietnam.
enCity’s Founder and Group Managing Director- Mr. Nguyen Do Dzung was interviewed by Reatimes.vn (Vietnam Real Estate Online Magazine) on how to increase the attractiveness of satellite cities to citizens and investors, as well as how to effectively moderate urban population.
Award-winning landscape artist Andy Cao shared his design process and philosophies with the enCity team in Saigon. Andy’s work, together with his partner Xavier Perrot, is an amalgamation of art and landscape to create dream-like installations that engage the senses.
nCity joins force with Viet Nam Initiative, the most prestigious think tank of Vietnamese scholars worldwide, to provide training and technical support on development strategy and planning methodology to representatives from 63 provinces of Viet Nam
For the capital city, the traditional fengshui principle is to face the south – towards the sun to receive the Yang energy and positive energy flow, and to lean on the mountain in the north to shield from negative energy flow.
n the 10th of September 2019, enCity, on behalf of an international consortium consisting of AECOM, enCity, GMAPS, and VIUP, successfully presented “Hai Phong Master Plan Revision 2035, vision to 2050” to the leaders of Haiphong, the third largest city in Vietnam
Consultants from enCity ask hard questions, that we ponder about. These curiosities, are very well insights into possible research areas.
As city centers mature over the years, developers start to look out of the city centres for development opportunities. State governments also institute growth corridors and city expansion funds to incentivize private developers, where the development of new townships may unlock land value in the outer regions and provide growth opportunities back to the state.
enCity is engaged by Becamex IDC Corporation, Vietnam’s largest industrial developer, to conduct master plans for three different major industrial and technology parks.











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