Vol. XIV, No. 1, January 2014

  1. Editor's corner
  2. Queue line design: theory versus perception
  3. Silverlake, the Family Place
  4. Four years after the economic recovery, America's birth rate remains depressed
  5. Foundations Entertainment University coming to Phoenix
  6. The Silver Screen is losing its shine
  7. Surfing in the desert
  8. Da Nang, Vietnam project gets a name
  9. It is very simply a people concept
  10. How to be friendly to food allergy sufferers
  11. The scoop on Chuck E. Cheese's going private

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Da Nang, Vietnam project gets a name

The entertainment and restaurant project our company has designed and is consulting on in Da Nang, Vietnam has finally been named. It will be Helio Center. In Vietnamese, Helio doesn't mean anything, but pronounced, it sounds like hello, so has a welcoming feel. Here's a bird's eye view of the 157,000-square-foot indoor and 4-acre outdoor center that is basically an FEC on steroids.

Those 11 things on the top of main building's roof are roof monitors that will fully daylight (no electric lights) most of the interior during the daytime to not only enhance the interior atmosphere, but also to save energy. The small building in the foreground contains restrooms, the classroom for the driving and boating school attractions and roofs over the queue lines and loading for both. The restaurant village with its four different cuisine kitchens that seats up to 600 is the area immediately in front of where the Helio Center sign is on the building. Also shown outside are the bumper boat pond, the children's edutainment center discovery play garden and two future Heege towers.

So where is the car parking? Well it's mostly for motorbikes, the main form of transportation in Vietnam. The basement garage has parking for 830 motorbikes, only 53 cars and a drop-off and loading area for taxis.

Helio Center is planning to open in the early Fall this year.

Vol. XIV, No. 1, January 2014

  1. Editor's corner
  2. Queue line design: theory versus perception
  3. Silverlake, the Family Place
  4. Four years after the economic recovery, America's birth rate remains depressed
  5. Foundations Entertainment University coming to Phoenix
  6. The Silver Screen is losing its shine
  7. Surfing in the desert
  8. Da Nang, Vietnam project gets a name
  9. It is very simply a people concept
  10. How to be friendly to food allergy sufferers
  11. The scoop on Chuck E. Cheese's going private

[ Index of Previous eNewsletters ]