Casablanca Grand Theater
Medina-inspired cluster of white pavilions behind a pierced terracotta screen, Africa's largest theater complex.
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This guide to the Casablanca Grand Theater follows architect Christian de Portzamparc, born in the city in 1944, who beat out Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Rem Koolhaas in a 2009 competition to design a cluster of white pavilions wrapped in a pierced terracotta screen. It tracks the project through repeated missed deadlines and a climbing budget after ground finally broke in 2014, on the square Lyautey and Prost had planned a century before. Stand before that pale, perforated skin and listen for how long it actually took to finish.
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