The rounded arch is one of Morocco's most persistent architectural signatures — appearing in mosques and madrasas, in the covered souks, in the arcaded facades of fondouks and civic buildings across the medina, always performing the same structural function and accumulating the same visual weight. Repeated across a facade in full sun, as here, the arch stops being an individual element and becomes something else entirely: a rhythm, a surface event that the eye reads as pattern before it reads as structure. Three arches across the upper register, their interiors in deep brown shadow, their warm terracotta surrounds catching the Marrakech afternoon against a clean blue sky. Below, more arches beginning. The building, seen this close, recedes. What remains is the oldest shape in the city, repeating until it fills the frame.
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