Casablanca

A masonry gateway with vivid blue doors is dressed with red Moroccan banners and a large royal portrait. Palm trees rise behind the crenellated-looking enclosure, while the arched openings and weathered stonework give the entrance a ceremonial character distinct from the surrounding modern city.

Seen from the roadway, a tall central pylon sends diagonal cables outward in a symmetrical fan above Casablanca traffic. The close approach transforms the bridge structure into a graphic composition of steel lines, blue sky, vehicles, and receding lanes, emphasizing the engineering of a modern urban crossing.

A historic cannon projects through a gap in a thick stone parapet, with Moroccan flags and palms visible behind it. The low, close viewpoint emphasizes the gun barrel and defensive masonry, presenting a surviving military feature within a landscaped and publicly accessible historic enclosure.

A small rounded turret projects from weathered stone defensive walls beneath a tall palm. Moroccan flags rise behind the masonry, while the close framing isolates the projecting lookout-like feature, allowing the construction, stone courses, narrow opening, and defensive geometry to be read more clearly.

A blue tiled sign identifies Sqala Café Maure as a cultural space and restaurant in Casablanca’s Ancienne Médina. Arabic and French lettering share the panel with a stylized graphic emblem, while the surrounding rough stone wall places the contemporary hospitality sign within a historic architectural setting.

A broad stone wall is pierced by an arched entrance secured with blue metal gates, while Moroccan flags and the bannered tower beyond connect the enclosure with the neighboring historic complex. The frontal view emphasizes layered walls, controlled access, and the contrast between dark masonry and vivid blue paint.

A large iron cannon rests on a wheeled metal carriage beside the stone fortifications, its barrel aimed across the open terrace. Moroccan flags and palms beyond soften the military setting, while the side view clearly records the cannon’s proportions, carriage wheels, mounting, and relationship to the defensive wall.

A cannon stands at the edge of a palm-filled fortified enclosure, framed by low stone walls, a gate pier, and Moroccan flags. This wider contextual view places the artillery within its landscaped setting and shows how the surviving defensive fabric now forms part of an accessible urban heritage space.

Three arched openings punctuate a weathered masonry façade, their bright blue doors creating a vivid contrast with the warm stone. Moroccan flags hang above the central passage, where an open door reveals a shaded route beyond, giving the view both architectural symmetry and a sense of passage into the enclosure.

Viewed directly along its barrel, a historic cannon points from the stone terrace toward a busy modern street below. Cars, pedestrians, palms, and a Moroccan flag occupy the background, creating a deliberate visual contrast between surviving defensive artillery and the everyday circulation of contemporary Casablanca.

A rounded projecting stone turret punctuates the upper edge of a dark masonry wall, its narrow slit-like opening suggesting a defensive lookout function. The close view highlights layered stone courses, the corbelled base, and weathered surfaces, with white urban buildings and a Moroccan flag appearing behind.

A long strip of lawn and mature palms forms a green promenade beside white low-rise buildings in Casablanca. Strong afternoon light throws tree shadows across the grass, while clipped hedges, pedestrian paths, and modern streetlights show a carefully maintained public landscape embedded in the dense city.

A narrow Casablanca street runs between weathered white façades lined with small shopfronts, awnings, exposed wiring, and parked cars. Pedestrians and closely spaced vehicles compress the perspective, presenting the lived urban fabric at street level rather than through a monumental landmark.

A narrow lane between whitewashed buildings opens toward a tall minaret centered in the distance. Green shutters, patched walls, utility cables, parked vehicles, and a red-painted lower façade create a layered neighborhood setting, while the distant tower provides a strong visual axis through the street.

A low wall painted in black, white, and red Arabic lettering borders a dense stand of palms and flowering vegetation. Pedestrians move along the sidewalk beside the enclosure, making this view a study of the boundary between a green public or institutional landscape and the surrounding city street.

A large street mural combines painted portraits with sweeping graffiti-style lettering across a red, black, and white wall. The tightly cropped composition foregrounds contemporary visual culture and public expression, contrasting sharply with the nearby portfolio views of stone fortifications, religious architecture, and formal civic spaces.

Monumental white letters spelling “TOGETHER FOREVER” stretch across a red-and-black street wall. The oblique viewpoint makes the phrase recede dramatically along the sidewalk, turning a simple painted message into a strong graphic element within Casablanca’s contemporary streetscape.

Seen from farther back, Casablanca’s former Sacred Heart Church is framed by palms, trees, Moroccan flags, and pedestrians near its entrance. The wider view clarifies the building’s symmetrical twin-tower façade and its relationship to the surrounding landscaped urban space, complementing the closer architectural study.

A red Moroccan flag hangs prominently beneath a large semicircular window set into a stark white façade. The close crop reduces the architecture to curve, plaster, glazing, and saturated red fabric, creating a precise detail study that complements the broader views of the monumental building.

Three deeply recessed arches and tall white piers define the lower façade of Casablanca’s former Sacred Heart Church. A Moroccan flag hangs above the central entrance, while exhibition banners flank the elevation. This close architectural view emphasizes the building’s monumental verticality and simplified modern forms rather than the full twin-towered silhouette seen from outside.

The soaring interior of Casablanca’s former Sacred Heart Church is organized by tall white piers that draw the eye toward a luminous wall of stained glass. An exhibition installation occupies the nave below, adding a contemporary cultural use to the deconsecrated sacred space. The long central perspective conveys the building’s exceptional height, rhythm, and filtered colored light.

A tall stained-glass composition fills the end of the former Sacred Heart Church with dense geometric color. Narrow vertical panels, red and blue accents, and a luminous central strip are framed by massive white structural ribs. The tighter view isolates the relationship between the decorative glazing and the building’s austere modern interior.

An upward view into the former Sacred Heart Church concentrates on the great stained-glass wall at the end of the nave. Slender white ribs rise around densely patterned colored glazing, while narrow side windows echo the vertical composition. The perspective magnifies the height of the interior and the contrast between structural austerity and luminous ornament.

Seven narrow stained-glass openings of varying height form a rhythmic group across a white interior wall. Each window combines colored diamonds, small geometric panes, and pale perforated areas, creating a constellation of jewel-like accents. The broad view shows how individual decorative panels are distributed across the architecture rather than concentrated in one monumental window.

A monumental white building presents a broad arcaded frontage and a tall central gateway faced in warm ochre tones beneath a green-tiled roof. A Moroccan flag flies above the entrance, while palms and pedestrians animate the forecourt. The symmetrical composition and controlled approach suggest an important civic or state institution.

A blue roadside sign in Arabic announces a toll-related facility 300 meters ahead, accompanied by large white symbols and numerals. The tight framing isolates the utilitarian graphic design, making the sign itself the subject rather than the surrounding road. Its script and standardized blue field place it within Morocco’s modern transport infrastructure.

Three round stone arches form a freestanding entrance beneath tall palms, framing a paved approach to a low complex beyond. Rough masonry and repeated voussoirs give the gateway a deliberately traditional character, while the landscaped setting and modern structures behind it place the feature within a contemporary recreational or institutional property.

A rectangular blue swimming pool sits within a lush garden of palms, flowering shrubs, and clipped lawn. Stone paving surrounds the water, with lounge chairs and bright outdoor seating arranged around the edge. The enclosed setting provides a quiet counterpoint to the portfolio’s dense streets and monumental city architecture.

A female peafowl walks along the edge of a bright blue swimming pool, its brown-gray plumage contrasting with vivid water and dense tropical planting. The low garden viewpoint places the bird against palms, lawn, and flowering vegetation, recording wildlife moving freely through a cultivated urban landscape.

Four traditionally dressed Moroccan musicians perform at a building entrance, wearing white garments and caps accented with red tassels. They hold frame drums and metal percussion instruments while facing outward toward an unseen audience. The intimate street-level view records live musical performance as part of Casablanca’s contemporary cultural life.

A male Indian peafowl stands beneath low branches in dense garden vegetation. The bird’s vivid cobalt-blue neck, fine black-and-white wing pattern, green shoulder sheen, and folded dark tail remain visible despite the shaded setting. The enclosed composition emphasizes plumage texture and camouflage within the undergrowth.

A small flock of helmeted guineafowl spreads across the lawn while a dark domestic hen stands behind them. The guineafowl bend toward the grass in active foraging postures, their speckled plumage, pale faces, and red wattles repeating across the group. The wider view documents mixed domestic birds sharing the landscaped grounds.

A male Indian peafowl walks away through a garden beside clusters of red, orange, and yellow flowers. Its long folded train and blue neck lead into the soft green background, while the flowering shrub occupies the foreground. The rear view emphasizes how the bird’s elongated body and tail move through cultivated vegetation.

A male Indian peafowl bends toward the grass in a close side view, exposing the rich transition from cobalt-blue head and neck to emerald-green breast, patterned gray wings, and dark folded tail. The uncluttered lawn background makes this the clearest plumage study among the portfolio’s peafowl photographs.

A low white service building within the El Hank Lighthouse complex carries a red Moroccan flag, communications mast, antennas, and rooftop equipment. Seen across dry coastal ground, the structure reads as the operational base of the lighthouse rather than a ceremonial façade. Its utilitarian forms and exposed equipment contrast with the ornate lantern architecture photographed nearby.

The lantern of El Hank Lighthouse crowns a cream-colored tower with a projecting gallery carried on repeated pointed corbels. A band of geometric ornament encircles the shaft below the balcony, while green trim frames the glass lantern room. The tight upward view isolates the lighthouse’s distinctive Moroccan architectural detailing against a deep blue sky.