Carrières Centrales

Carrières Centrales
General information
LocationHay Mohammadi

Casablanca

 Morocco
Coordinates33°34′59″N 7°33′50″W / 33.583°N 7.564°W / 33.583; -7.564
Completed1952

Carrières Centrales (Moroccan Arabic: كريان سنطرال) is a series of modernist housing developments in Casablanca, Morocco designed in the 1950s by architects Georges Candillis, Shadrach Woods, Alexis Josic. The development aimed to create utopian "habitats" that would provide alternatives to slum life for working class residents of the city. Carrières Centrales has been noted as a prominent example of modernism within the Maghreb.

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