The Medina of Fez – one of Morocco’s oldest cities, often called its cultural capital – was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981. An ambitious urban-regeneration project has revitalized Place Lalla Yeddouna and its surroundings, in accordance w
Two parallel walls of rammed earth form a linear succession that forms a rural house in Al Haouz, Morocco. Redefining the traditional house-courtyard typology, Dar El Farina breaks up its sequenced domestic spaces by means of pivot doors. The sun shi
In the Moroccan town of El Mansouria, 38 kilometers north of Casablanca, the 115,000-capacity Grand Stade Hassan II will be one of the largest football stadiums in the world and one of the new ones built for the World Cup of 2030, to be hosted jointl
Envisioned as a village within a circle, the pavilions designed by the firm of Tarik Oualalou and Linna Choi, working out of offices in Casablanca and Paris, were the venue of the 2023 World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, held from 9
The New Zealand practice of Bergendy Cooke – in charge of the concept, design, and interiors – has in collaboration with the Moroccan architect Amine Abouraoui built this hotel beside the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech. Reinterpreting vernacular archi
The Moroccan contribution to the next World Expo seeks to demonstrate how traditional construction systems have the potential to give rise to more sustainable development models. The world’s largest facade of rammed earth encompasses twenty-two recta
Created from generative algorithms and oyster mushroom mycelium on straw, Breeding Space is alive, grows, is harvested, and generates edible subproducts; from the inside it reveals the endoskeleton of welded iron rods and the timber formwork. Of the
Next to Jardin Majorelle, in the Moroccan city that so inspired Yves Saint Laurent, the museum devoted to his work features local terracotta brick, forming patterns that evoke the weft and warp of the fabric in an opaque envelope that protects from t
Una estructura central, de 680x18 metros, une todos los espacios y pabellones del complejo, construido para la cumbre climática COP 22; un colosal toldo de membrana pretensada, de 12.400 metros cuadrados, protege del fuerte sol el eje principal en to
Designed as a light sheet of concrete with dark red ceramics on the underside, the canopy welcomes visitors, becomes wider and, like a plaza, articulates the common spaces; the classrooms are arranged as autonomous units around small courtyards... [+
The proposal is based on the riad type, the traditional Moroccan housing, and seeks to link rooftops, raised gardens, terraces, and the inner public courtyard with the streets and the city by favoring pedestrian use of the complex...
Located in the vicinity of the port, at the point where the medina, the Art Déco district, and the city’s recent urban developments meet, the new railway station of Casablanca accommodates under its vast roof all the functions to be expected of a tra
The volumes that make up the museum are aggregated in a way that evokes Marrakech’s traditional architecture: an elongated block that marks the entrance, a top-lit cubic volume for exhibitions, and two smaller ancillary buildings.
Drawing inspiration from the ksar and the madrasa – Maghrebi fortified cities and schools –, and combining local knowledge with modern technology, the project reinvents earth as building material able to fulfill current comfort needs and safety requi
Concebido como un kit de montaje de motivos tomados de la tradición autóctona, el diseño de esta red de sucursales bancarias permite su inserción en diferentes emplazamientos.
Emplazados a las afueras de una ciudad histórica e inspirados en la geometría cúbica de sus murallas, una serie de pabellones se organizan en torno a patios y espacios porticados.
Waters rise, temperaturas increase, and natural catastrophies keep happening, laying bare our incapacity to take care of the environment and showing that inaction has consequences. In this context of cut-off lows, fires, and extreme droughts, it seem
Designed by Rafael de La-Hoz and Hakim Benjelloun, the Bank of Africa tower in Rabat will stand at 820 feet tall (250 meters), and become the second-highest skyscraper on the continent behind The Pinnacle, which is under construction in Nairobi, Keny
The firm Paredes Pedrosa – founded and headed by Ángela García de Paredes and Ignacio Pedrosa and based in Madrid – was announced the winner of the contest to build The Spanish Institute in the campus of Mohammed V University in Rabat. The project, c
El centro de formación de Chwiter, situado en las afueras de Marrakech y diseñado por Anna Heringer, Martin Rauch, Elmar Nägele, Ernst Waibel y Salima Naji, tiene como objetivo ofrecer a los jóvenes formación profesional. En este contexto, la constr
Situado en los los jardines de la antigua residencia de los gobernadores franceses en Rabat, el nuevo proyecto de OMA propone un viaje a lo largo de 4,5 millones de años de la historia de Marruecos. El MNAST (Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Ciencias
Dentro del programa de desarrollo cultural propuesto por Mohamed VI, el estudio de Zaha Hadid ha recibido el encargo de diseñar el Gran Teatro de Rabat. El edificio ocupará un lugar icónico a orillas del río Bouregreg en la capital marroquí, y se con
