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The square became a bus station for a period of time in the midcentury. A clock tower imitating the original's design was constructed a short distance closer to the medina in 1993. The architect Jean-François Zevaco designed the Kora Ardia (كرة أرضية), "Globe," in 1975. [8] The Casablanca Tramway transformed the square. Work started in ...
In 1886, Élisée Reclus described Casablanca as a "European coastal settlement" and "desolate and extremely unhealthy." [3] [15] A nawāl or tankīra, origin of the name of the Tnaker neighborhood, circa 1910. [3] In his 1900 map of the city, Dr. Frédéric Weisgerber identified three main parts: the medina, the mellah, and the Tnaker (huts). [3]
The station provides a direct interchange between train and shipping services, and is located near several port-area hotels. It is the nearest station to the old town of Casablanca, and to the modern city centre, around the landmark Casablanca Twin Center. Casa-Port station is being rebuilt in a modern and enlarged configuration.
Casablanca Finance City Tower (Arabic: برج القطب المالي للدار البيضاء) also known as the CFC Tower is a 28–story office building in Casablanca, Morocco. Built between 2016 ans 2019, the tower stands at 136 m (446 ft) tall and is the fourth tallest building in Morocco. [ 2 ]
The 3D model of Berlin allows viewers to look at the city as it is now, as it once was, and as the city might turn into in the future. A 3D city model is digital model of urban areas that represent terrain surfaces, sites, buildings, vegetation, infrastructure and landscape elements in three-dimensional scale as well as related objects (e.g., city furniture) belonging to urban areas.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Morocco Mall (Arabic: مول المغرب) is the largest shopping mall in Africa [1] with 590000m² of floor space in Casablanca, Morocco. Morocco Mall, which opened on December 1, 2011, was designed by architect Davide Padoa of Design International, a global architecture boutique with its headquarters in London. Kuncara Wicaksana under the ...
The Liberty Building (Arabic: عمارة الحرية, French: Immeuble Liberté), also known as "17 Stories" (17 étages or dix-sept étages), is a 17-story residential tower in Casablanca, Morocco. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was designed by Léonard Morandi and built between 1949 and 1951. [ 4 ]