The Assayag occupies a corner, that of rue Allal Ben Abdellah and boulevard Hassan Seghir. From the other side of the pedestrian crossing it can be seen whole: a block that turns, balconies that follow the curve and, above them, the towers rising in tiers.
At street level, arcades and the shutters of the shops; on one side, an entrance to the building, next to a café terrace. The arcades also counted for the regulations: streets with porticoes earned an extra metre and a half of height.
Higher up, the rule can be read with the naked eye. At the corner, the height allowed on the wider street carries over to the narrower one; above it, the set-back storeys must stay under a 45° line — hence the tiers that cut into the sky. The whole calculation is in the article on the building’s permitted height.
On each tower, a narrow glazed strip runs the full height of the stairwell, and the top ends in what the Gazette de l’Électricité called, in 1935, “little villas”. The street’s palm trees stay down below, at the level of the first floors.
The photographs were taken between March 2023 and December 2025, at different hours: evening light gilds the tops, winter light hardens the blue of the sky. The other side of the same towers: the inner street.
Photographs: Alex Bego.
