Casa Port
Coastal train terminal rebuilt after its own foundations flooded mid-construction, roofed in branching wood and steel columns.
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This guide to Casa Port train station in Casablanca begins beneath the platform where a building site vanished underwater in the winter of 2010. It traces the terminal back to 1907, when a modest stop met Casablanca's old docks, then follows the decision to dig for a new underground level, the flood that followed, and the contractor collapse that pushed the opening back year after year. Look up as you listen for what the guide says survived above you, and what the sea once tested beneath your feet.
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