Immeuble Assayag 1930 Marius Boyer
Stepped Art Deco apartment towers with rounded balconies, raised in place of a dark inner courtyard.
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This guide to Immeuble Assayag in Casablanca follows the architect Marius Boyer, who designed the building in nineteen thirty for Jewish developer Moses Assayag during a boomtown era when Muslim, Jewish and French Catholic Casablancans all found work raising the city. It traces his choice to set aside ornate Mauresque flourishes for clean geometric lines and rounded balconies, and his decision to raise three stepped towers instead of one dense block around a dark courtyard, so light and air could reach every stairwell. Nearly a century later the building still holds the city's highest heritage classification.
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