The Sofic Tower or Thisofic Tower, originally named as Zone IIA Tower or Zone IIA HCMC, is a complex building in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. At its completion in 2019, it was the first mixed-used and office building to be inaugurated in the Sala City urban development, also the Thủ Thiêm new urban area. The tower has tally 20 floors with a height of and 4 basements.
The building is invested and owned by ÃÂại Quang Minh Real Estate Investment Corporation [<nowiki/>] (Công ty cá» phần ÃÂầu tð ÃÂá»Âa á»Âc ÃÂại Quang Minh; simply called ÃÂại Quang Minh), a subsidiary of THACO. It is located on Mai ChàThá» Boulevard, Thủ Thiêm, Thủ ÃÂức (the former address before 2021 is An Lợi ÃÂông, District 2) and is a part of the Zone IIA complex, a twin-building complex area comprising the lots 5-4 and 5-5 of functional area No. 5 of Thủ Thiêm urban area with the current completed building is in the latter lot, surrounded by streets of Mai ChàThá» â Nguyá» n Cá Thạch â Hoàng Thế Thiá»Ân & D6; and the former is a showroom of THACO AUTO BMW temporarily, it is opposite the building by Nguyá» n Cá Thạch Street and borders with "Catfish" Canal Park (Công viên Rạch Cá Trê; now is Sala Park) but already planned for a building that has similar design and connected by a glass bridge.
At the end of 2014, ÃÂại Quang Minh Company invested in main 4 axis roads that cost 8,265 billion VND in Thủ Thiêm Area with a total length of 11.9 km, including: R1 Crescent Boulevard (now is Trần Bạch ÃÂằng Street (3.4 km), R2 Central Lake road (now is Tá» Hữu Street) (3 km), R3 Saigon Riverside Road (now is Nguyá» n Thiá»Ân Thành Street) (3 km), and R4 Elevated Road passing swamp area (now is Bùi Thiá»Ân Ngá» Street (2.5 km) with 8 bridges and 2 viaduct on the street) also the Thủ Thiêm Central Square & Riverside Park, Ba Son Bridge and Southern Delta Swamp Park Project through a BT form, an alternative form of BOT. This BT form leads to the government traded an over 100 hectares of the Functional Area 5 and 6 in the southeast of Thủ Thiêm Peninsula to build the Sala City urban development, including the Sofic Tower.
Sofic Tower, temporary initial name is Thaco Office â Commercial â Service Building (shortly called Thaco Complex), was groundbreaking in September 21, 2015 and was expected to completed in Q3/2017. However, it was until two years later in Q3/2019, the office tower block was completed and three years later in November 2022, the podium was completed with the inauguration of Thiso Mall (formerly known as Socar Mall), Thiskyhall Sala Convention Center and the Emart underground supermarket.
Sofic Tower comprises a 13-story office tower block with an 8-story podium for mall and convention center that entirely in the lot, sharing the 4 basements with 3 from the bottom are used for parking. The building is also headquarters of THACO and its subsidiaries from Level 16 to 18.
The building was nominated twice at Ashui Awards for Future Project of The Year in 2018 as Zone IIA HCMC and Building of The Year in 2023, it was in the top 5 most voted for both categories (the latter was runner-up).