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I'd like to talk about the Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, which is a building I'm genuinely fond of, even though plenty of locals think it's rather showy. It stands in District 1 and was completed in 2010. It has sixty-eight floors and is around 260 metres high, so for several years it was the tallest building in the city. The shape is what people remember: it's said to be modelled on a lotus bud, slim and curved, with a helipad sticking out of one side like a plate balanced on a finger. Most of it is offices, with shops on the lower floors and an observation deck on the forty-ninth floor that is open to the public. My reason for liking it is personal. Two years ago, for my grandmother's seventieth birthday, my cousins and I bought tickets and took her up to that deck. She had lived in Saigon all her life and had never been higher than the fourth floor of a hospital. In the lift her ears popped and she gripped my arm, but once she reached the glass she went quiet for a long time, picking out the river, the market and finally the district where we live. Then she laughed and said, "From up here, our house is smaller than a grain of rice." So whenever I catch sight of the tower from a bridge on my way home, I think of her face that evening rather than of banks and offices. I also think it suits the city. It's a bit flashy and a bit crowded around the base, but it's ambitious, and it looks its best at night.