Colorful names and surrounded by luxury buildings of style «Alnyumorisky»
Square «bathroom» in Casablanca spacious area surrounded by administrative buildings and surrounding a water fountain does not Tfariqha swarms of pigeons, has become a destination for Marin in front of her and beside her, in order to take pictures and reflect on the landscape, and also get some rest after a tiring work, becoming a landmark of historical exploits of the House white where visitors see it much in line with the verses of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, when he wrote in one of his poems «fly the bathroom .. degrades the bathroom .. TCO me land to rest .. I love you so tired.»
In the city center of Casablanca, specifically street Hassan II, located Mohamed V Square, which was named in the original grand scene and later «Victory Square», then Aouti Square, then the administrative arena, then the United Nations Plaza, for now called the Place Mohammed V, the name the late king, to commemorate the struggle for the liberation of Morocco
Took place to prepare the scene in the twenties of the last century under the supervision of Gen. Aouti (the first resident in French Morocco in the colonial era), which is surrounded by luxury in buildings of style «Alnyumorisky», is the official representative center for the Greater Casablanca, as well as a lot of administrative buildings that distinguishes green tile. It also is the first administrative arena of Casablanca, a city that was her ambition since 1900 in turn increase in commercial activities and business, will bring together the most important departments and buildings in the city, and a pole to official activities; civilian and military.
Came upon the scene to bring the idea that was going on in the minds General Resident Aouti about the modern city of Casablanca, where he summoned the architect Henri Prost in 1914 on the recommendation of the existence Claude Nicolas Frostaa, the two together are members of the Social Museum and company engineers and reconstruction in France, and belonged to a generation of engineers which promotes the development of the new science branch of any reconstruction, which began his ideas then spread in both America and Europe, as Proust introduced in 1915, a blueprint for the creation of Casablanca first schematic drawing of administrative Square, the oldest on this occasion on the application of several principles of the principles of reconstruction: the creation of green spaces , include roads, box at right for Reconstruction Act, which, inter alia, the text of it, determine the height of the buildings, and the criteria measured. Zoning, an idea brought in from Germany and on the development of activities linked to certain areas: business center (linked to construction), administrative Square, neighborhoods for residencies (West), Industrial Area (East)
Bear Mohammed V design a European, and was painted by the last position by Joseph Maras, and constructed in a position of military camps erected since 1907, where he became openness possible with the use of the rectangle influence the former military barracks, and was ready to receive the public interest (city hotel, post office, State Bank, the theater, and the two buildings of the military administration), and is characterized by organized «Classic» status output that symmetrical and complex at the level of axes along the lines of Europe's major squares
And responded to public buildings design arena with the recommendations of General Resident Gen. Aouti who wanted convenience between tradition and modernity, and the Union between the austerity of modern style and some elements of traditional architecture (tiles, green and brick, and corridors) yielded Moroccan style updated (New - Moroccan), which can be identified in the cities of Morocco, where the procedures are soon founded the Turkish general engineering in the era of Kemal Ataturk, during the twenties of the last century, consistency has been updated for the central parties to buildings, associated sometimes Extensions more abstract, the meeting between reading practice by team Aouti art Islamic, contemporary vision that fall in tradition, expressed fertility and renewal, the integration of new local species to create a timely manner
It is noteworthy that the municipal theater was the basic elements of the draft stage, as he gives to the north character more attractive, but it was destroyed during the beginning of the eighties of the last century, Rashid said the Andalusian, president of «white memory Society», «Middle East», that when the municipal theater in the arena was complete the daily work of the departments to ensure a revival of a lot of evenings, but since it closed there is a vacuum in the night, and said: «We expect to build a new theater fill this void»
Today preparations are under way to rebuild the Grand Theatre in the Mohamed V Square, where he put his vision in the form of a cultural city for a total investment worth up to 1.4 billion dirhams, and will begin work achievement during the first half of 2014
He explained that the Andalusian Casablanca in the era of the French protectorate was an international laboratory for Urbanism and Construction, which was launched and the first experiments for the preservation of property and high urbanization, ready to Mohammed V of engineering landmarks in Morocco, noting that her artistic tourist
The Morocco-mail, which was built in the arena building, is the first administrative building, and always keep a century after the passage of time, the central building of the mail in Casablanca, and includes a banner marked down the hallway, blue glass and white that written in terms the entrances and mailboxes, and inside sculptures iron on the porch public, on two levels found in their positions historical arena, and returned the creation of the building in the years of the nineties
It is noteworthy that the state headquarters of the «City Palace» is one of the last buildings constructed in the arena, as used fronted with a strong presence, as a decoration during the filming of American director Martin Scorsese «Chandon»
The building is organized around three in the state with a belt courtyards, pass traffic through the cellars, while columns interspersed with tiles of different colors, green fees Impressionism and painted brick, and reference this construction is the official religion and ancient buildings. Residents of the house and qualified white the current headquarters of the state of destination Casablanca b «municipal» or «big stature» (ie the big time), and established this building, which can be seen from afar thanks to the high tower of up to 50 meters, during the years of the thirties by Maurice Bauer , opened jointly by Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef, and President of the French Republic, Albert Lebrun, to be the architectural masterpiece right, whether at home or abroad, and consistent mix of cultures
And near the headquarters of the state, there is «the Palace of Justice», which is the jewel of engineering from the colonial period, and gives this building, created by the architect Joseph Marast between the years 1920 and 1923, the unique aesthetic of the street Hassan II
The Bank of Morocco, the last buildings constructed in the arena, after expansion work completed in the nineties, embracing the central corridor down the penthouse glass amazing carved to Caesar, and carved the main interface that corresponds to the scene decorated with the richness of forms in the rock, a method derived its reference to the engineering of the era Almohad, at home and interfaces of ceramic and metal sculptures, wooden indicate the recommendation of a refined look to the max
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