Design
Why Would Anyone Want to Cover Marrakech's Beloved Open-Air Market in Concrete?
Proof that any project can garner accolades if it's eccentric enough.
Jamaâ el-Fna in Marrakech is one of the most incredible public squares on earth. By day it's a maddening frenzy of chatty locals, dazed tourists and young boys who put monkeys onto tourists (with or without their consent). At night, steaming food tents pop up as the square morphs into a gigantic open-air market, where the hungry can champ on delicacies like steaming bowls of snails and sweet lamb udder.
Here it is in the evening: