Summer 1934: the Assayag fills up
On 10 June 1934, a line in Le Petit Marocain gives the first known address in the building. Small ads, the trade register, a first complaint: how the Assayag filled up in six months. Read more
Casablanca · 1930 · Marius Boyer
The Residence Assayag
One of the jewels of Casablanca’s Art déco architecture.
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“Between the lines of my plans and the curves of my buildings, I have sought to weave a harmonious dialogue between Moroccan tradition and Western modernity.”
— Marius Boyer, architect · “Casablanca, a city of history and of the future”
Floor plan — the three towers · Marius Boyer
1930Built
03Art déco towers
BoyerArchitect
1418Hassan Seghir Blvd
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François Cogné, Lyautey’s sculptor on the Assayag’s ground floor
A visiting card on a shop window, “François Cogné, statuaire”, facing the cemetery on the rue Léon l’Africain. What the press of 1934–1939 tells about the studio where Lyautey’s equestrian statue was born — and what is still to be found.
1930: the skyscraper Casablanca that never was
“The New York of Morocco”, a 150-metre skyscraper on the place de France, air taxis above the quays: in 1930 Casablanca almost went vertical. The story of an abandoned plan, and of the three towers that came out of it.
The building was made to be evacuated
Casablanca’s regulation required buildings of five storeys and above to have two staircases running their full height, a dry pipe to the roof, and exits left permanently clear. What the Assayag was given, what those devices meant — and what time does to systems owned in common.
The Assayag in 1935: a power socket in every kitchen
In January 1935 La Gazette de l’Électricité described the Assayag: the street cutting the building in two, the cross plan, the column of light in the axis of the stair, the three "little villas" on top. Full page and complete issue to download.
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1930 → today
A century in four dates
1930
Work begins on boulevard Hassan Seghir: three arcaded towers rise above the city.
1932The building is completed — communal buanderies, glazed stairwells, stepped terraces.
2023“Chez Marius”: the former service basements become a cultural venue.
2025“Citadelle”: ten artists exhibit in the building during the Heritage Days.
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Three arcaded towers, stepped terraces, glazed screens along the stairs: how the building was designed.
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Art Deco walk
From the rue de l’Horloge to Boyer’s town hall: the Assayag’s neighbourhood, map in hand.
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1418, Assayag — boulevard Hassan Seghir
20000, Casablanca