Immeuble la liberté عمارة الحرية 17

The guide to Immeuble la Liberte in Casablanca starts with its odd shape: seventeen floors tapering into a V, engineered by Swiss architect Leonard Morandi in 1951 to point south and let the sun warm every apartment for free. It was, briefly, the tallest building on the African continent, and made the cover of a French architecture magazine. Then it follows an ordinary day in 1955, when a French industrialist who lived in the tower and had turned against colonial rule stood at the point where its edge meets the pavement below. Stand at that same spot at street level and look up at the sharp concrete prow above you.