Oualalou + Choi   Morocco   Two hundred meters long but barely eight wide, the building is a succession of volumes attached to a retaining wall, sometimes pushed into the ground and in other cases lifted to capture views of the surroundings. The area for receiving visitors and

Populous Oualalou + Choi   Morocco   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

Oualalou + Choi   Morocco   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

Oualalou + Choi   United Arab Emirates   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

Oualalou + Choi   Morocco   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

A philosopher who loved architecture, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, wrote in the year 1822 that making holes in the earth was perhaps more natural than raising poles or pillars on the surface, and that it perhaps made much more sense to think of the