Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City was designed by Ngô Viết Thụ, with civil engineer Phan Văn Điển, for President Ngô Đình Diệm. After a 1962 bombing by two dissident pilots badly damaged the old palace, construction of the new one was ordered. Work began on July 1, 1962, and Nguyễn Văn Thiệu inaugurated it on October 31, 1966, the date the infobox gives as completion.
The infobox calls the style Vietnamese modernist. It names no materials. It is 85 feet (26 m) tall with four floors and 1.3 million square feet (120,000 square meters) of floor area.
On April 30, 1975, a North Vietnamese tank bulldozed through the main gate, marking the Fall of Saigon. It was renamed Reunification Hall in November 1975. It is now a convention hall and public museum. The article gives no hours.
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