Local Chatter

One of the pleasures of working on the L’Amandier development has been meeting and working with both the locals and other foreigners building their businesses in and around Marrakech. We explore what the locals have to say and introduce you to a few characters and establishments that we reckon are worth writing about ...

Wall Street Journal Europe: eco-house of the day

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on October 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments so far

The Wall Street Journal (European edition) selected L’Amandier as Eco-house of the day just recently. We’re dead pleased about that! See: http://tinyurl.com/37a3hyw for their report.

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L’Amandier villas: our quest for sustainability (PART 1)

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on September 27th, 2010 · Leave a comment

L’Amandier is located in one of the most stunning areas of the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, which is the reason Anwar and Riaz fell in love with this plateau of land in the first place. It has therefore always been important to them to build the development in the most sensitive way possible.  Not [...]

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La ville nouvelle, Marrakech

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on September 10th, 2010 · Leave a comment

View from a Guèliz café… (Guèliz is the downtown area of Marrakech or, la ville nouvelle) Stylish Moroccan trendsetters in their aviator glasses and latest Diesel jeans. French businessmen in jeans, polished dress shoes and carefully coiffured hair. Tourists in their inappropriate clothes and sunburnt skin, clutching water bottles in the heat of the day. [...]

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