Casablanca Marina

This guide to Casablanca Marina follows how ten of its twenty-six hectares were once open ocean, filled in by the state fund's development arm CGI to give the city a coastline it had turned its back on. It traces the London firm WATG's brief to reconnect Casablanca to the water, from a congress palace meant as a dramatic backdrop to an anchoring hotel tower. Walk the one-and-a-half-kilometer promenade past the marina berths and listen for what the designers pictured this stretch of coast becoming.