Casablanca’s ‘Gardens of Anfa’ are wrapped in bougainvilleas and jasmine - See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2014/02/casablancas-gardens-of-anfa-are-wrapped-in-bougainvilleas-and-jasmine/#sthash.ikDa5esu.dpuf

Maison Edouard François designed a colorful new mixed-used residential master plan for Casablanca, a cosmopolitan Moroccan city made famous by a movie with the same name.

The Moroccan government is spending a lot of money to bring Casablanca up to the standards of a European city and attract more foreign investors.
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Crescent-shaped Garden of Eden

 

Saudi Arabia is building the world’s largest botanical gardens on nearly 2.5 million square meters of desert land near Riyadh. A stellar environmental initiative to educate the public on climate change, or a tourism-boosting novelty? However you dice it, it’s amazing. 

The enormous facility – five times larger than the UK’s Eden Project – focuses on the history of local plants in the Arabian Peninsula, then peers forward to a more sustainable future (it will use renewable energy for power and plant irrigation).

 

 

 

King Abdullah International Gardens (KAIG) is an enormous desert park; 150 hectares of the 160 hectare site will be planted with indigenous species, mostly contained within two giant domes – crescent-shaped structures that resemble a swirling galaxy.
Appropriate imagery for gardens that look back to the origins of life on earth – KAIG will contain a detailed time line that portrays the great paleobotanical ages that have swept across the region.
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