International request for proposals
Project team: the City of Casablanca, developers selected by the CRI (Centre Régional d?Investissement du Grand Casablanca ? Regional Investment Centre of Greater Casablanca): Alliance Développement, Palmeraie Développement, Somed, Actif Invest
- atelierphilippemadec (Paris), general town planning, architecture
- Groupe Signes, landscape
- Tribu, environmental consultants
- Construction & Environnement, structures
- lagraph., graphic design
Status: Negotiations in progress | Net Gross Area: 250.000 m2
The Sindibad Amusement Park has pride of place in the hearts and memories of Casablancans and other Moroccans. In order to give it a new lease of life, it has been decided to coordinate a plan that embraces both the amusement park (see thumbnail 2009 Casablanca (Morocco) Les Nouveaux Mondes de Sindibad) and the neighbouring Schneider quarries, which form a straight shelf 1.5 km long and approximately 20m high. This is where the oldest human remains in North Africa were found.
While constituting a continuous landscape at the foot of the cliff, the contiguous districts each have distinctly different atmospheres. The urban project is entitled to 200,000 m2 for mixed purposes: a mosque, an archaeological museum, shops, hotels and offices.