APEC Park

This guide to APEC Park in Da Nang traces the riverside site from its 2017 debut hosting leaders of twenty-one Pacific economies through its 2019 expansion, when the city cleared an entire stretch of riverbank to make room for the curved steel canopy overhead. You'll hear how the project's budget split between compensating the families and businesses forced off the land and actually building the kite-shaped structure that opened in January 2022. Stand under the dome and consider what a city spends just to clear ground before it builds anything at all.