(VOVworld) - The US’ CNN has made public a list of 25 great skyscrapers, the world’s icons of construction. Vietnam’s Bitexco Financial Tower is one of them.

Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh city

Designed to represent Vietnam's national flower, the lotus, this 262-meter skyscraper is meant to characterize the beauty and growth of the city below. It has a helipad on the 52nd floor that juts out 22 meters. The building has 37,000 sqm of offices and 8,000 sqm of shopping areas. There's an observation deck on the 47th floor, the Saigon Skydeck, where visitors get a 360-degree view of HCMC.