Article source: Silvio d’Ascia Architecture

The Kenitra station was imagined as a jewel case framing the renewed identity of traditional Moroccan architecture in an urban context, in particular thanks to its facade, a reinterpretation of a moucharabieh expanded to the scale of the city. Associating the socio-economic and technological progress concretized by the arrival of the Al Boraq TGV, the station is a symbol of this city’s and of Morocco’s integration with the modern world.

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• Architects: Silvio d’Ascia Architecture
• Project: Kenitra station
• Location: Royal Army St, Kenitra, Morocco
• Photography: Takuji Shimmura
  
• Client: ONCF – Office National des Chemins de Fer
  
• Silvio d’Ascia Architecture: G. Perino, E. Seif, F. Nicolosi, A. Ares Sainz
  
• Omar Kobbité Architectes (Moroccan lead architect): O. Kobbité, F. Mannella, E. Giudice
  
• All Trade Works: TPF Pyramide Ingénierie
  
• Control office: DEKRA
  
• SPC Coordinator: SOGEA Maroc
  

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