Casablanca, also known by its Arabic name Dar el-Beida, is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business center. Located on the Atlantic coast of the Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a population of about 3.71 million in the urban area, and over 4.27 million in the Greater Casablanca, making it the most populous city in the Maghreb region, and the eighth-largest in the Arab world.
Ricardo Bofill Leví was a Spanish architect from Barcelona, Catalonia. He founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice. According to architectural historian Andrew Ayers, his creations rank "among the most impressive buildings of the 20th century."
The Galeries Lafayette is an upmarket French department store chain, the biggest in Europe. Its flagship store is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris but it now operates in a number of other locations in France and other countries. In 2019, Galeries Lafayette recorded earnings of over five billion euros. It is a part of the company Groupe Galeries Lafayette and has been a member of the International Association of department stores since 1960.
Frank Stephenson is a Moroccan-born British-American automobile designer who has worked for Ford, BMW, Mini, Ferrari, Maserati, Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, and McLaren.
MAPIC is an international retail real estate show held in Cannes, France, each November. Organised by Reed MIDEM, and lasting for 3 days, the event consists of conference sessions, an exhibition area and networking events to help facilitate retail real estate development.
F+A Architects is an architectural firm based in Pasadena, California. The firm was founded in 1973, and primarily works in the planning and design development of retail stores and shopping malls. Many of the firm's projects are designed and built in North America, but F+A has also worked on large international projects, most notably in Dubai UAE, Qatar, and Jordan.
Benoy is an international firm of architects, master planners, interior architects and graphic designers working from design studios in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Montréal. The company is primarily known for its global retail architecture. Notable projects include the Westfield London building in the UK, Elements shopping mall in Hong Kong, and ION mall in Singapore.
Morocco Mall is the largest shopping mall in Africa with 590000m² of floor space in Casablanca, Morocco. Morocco Mall, which opened on December 1, 2011, was designed by Architect Davide Padoa of Design International, a global architecture boutique with its headquarters in London. Kuncara Wicaksana under the principal of Davide Padoa developed the Architectural Concept until the Design Development stage. The project site coordination was led by Miguel Fernandes and Catia Zizzi
Flavio Manzoni is an Italian architect and automobile designer. He is the Senior Vice President of Design at Ferrari from January 2010 and he has led in the creation of many Ferrari models including the Ferrari F12berlinetta, in collaboration with Pininfarina; LaFerrari, the first hybrid of the little horse, also born from his pencil, and in 2014 he gained the Compasso d'Oro for the F12berlinetta project.
Starlight Place, is a shopping mall located in Chongqing, People's Republic of China. Designed by the architectural firm Aedas, it officially opened in 2012.
Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) is an architecture firm that was founded in 1963 by Ricardo Bofill, initially as Taller de Arquitectura (lit. 'Architecture Workshop'). It is headquartered in Sant Just Desvern near Barcelona, in a former cement factory known as La Fábrica.
C Concept Design is an international architecture firm based in The Hague, Netherlands founded by American architect Matthew VanderBorgh in 2002. C Concept Design focuses on sustainable practices, master-planning and concept design. Matthew VanderBorgh earned his bachelor's degree from Hope College in 1984. He would later receive a Masters Diploma of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. C Concept Design has focused on providing urban and architectural visions for the programming, concept and design development of new buildings. Prior to C Concept Design, VanderBorgh worked as an architectural designer on the prize winning Gateway Transit Center in Los Angeles in 1997.
Salwa Idrissi Akhannouch is a businesswoman and entrepreneur. She is the founder and current president of Aksal Holding, a Moroccan company specializing in retail, cosmetics, luxury goods and malls. Currently, she holds the title of First Lady of Morocco. In 2017, she was named as the "Morocco's Leading Lady of Luxury Goods" by OZY.
Davide Padoa is the CEO of Design International and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Milan. Padoa finished his architectural studies in California at the University of Pomona. After his graduation as architect in the USA and Italy, Padoa moved to the U.K. and then to Indonesia, where he worked as a design director in one of the largest engineering and architecture practices. During that period, he lectured architecture at Trisakty University and established an international relationship between the Indonesian and Italian governments for large regeneration projects.
The Iran Mall is the largest shopping mall in the world, and one of the largest commercial, cultural and social projects in the world, located in northwest Tehran, Iran by Chitgar Lake.
Yas Mall is a mall in Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It serves as a place for shopping, dining and entertainment for residents of Abu Dhabi and Yas Island. It covers an area of approximately 235,000 square metres.
The architecture of Casablanca is diverse and historically significant. Casablanca, Morocco's economic capital, has a rich urban history and is home to many notable buildings in a variety of styles. Throughout the 20th century, architecture and urban development in Casablanca evolved in a way that was simultaneously specific to the city's contexts, and consonant with international ideas.
360 Mall is a shopping mall located on the Sixth Ring Highway in the South Surra, Kuwait that opened on 5 July 2009. The mall has a circular design, and its name 360 is derived from the circular design of the complex, and its design follows the modern architectural design of the exterior and interior.
