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The new business district in downtown Casablanca consists of a compressed urban density, where public space is reduced to its most elementary dimension. Facing the street, this office building is elevated in order to extend the public space of the street all the way into the heart of the property. At the foot of the building, an enormous stair serves as a public amphitheater to the plaza within the building’s footprint, creating a gathering space in a neighborhood where the streetscape is almost exclusively held in the private realm. The CUBE creates a space that can be appropriated by the public, reinvigorating this business quarter with a sense of public prerogative.