架构师提供的文本描述。像许多历史城市一样，拉巴特为自己的过去感到自豪，但也渴望展望未来。因此，城市不能在结合传统和现代的同时，避免成长的必要性。

Text description provided by the architects. Like many historic cities, Rabat is proud of its past but also eager to look to the future. The city could not, therefore, avoid the necessity to grow while combining tradition and modernity.

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也许比其他任何地方，135米高的塔的外观都不是普通的。这座塔必须反映出传统的才能和潜力，也是现代的突出之处。因此，它的设计受到了微妙的辩证法的影响，这些微妙的辩证法支撑着国内最杰出的建筑：室内和外部，清醒和奢华，温暖和凉爽等。这些并不表示对立的关系，而是相互之间形成神奇的关系。

Perhaps more than anywhere else, the appearance of a 135-metre high tower is anything but ordinary. This tower had to reflect the flair and potential of tradition and also stand out as modern. Its design was thus influenced by the subtle dialectic underpinning the most outstanding buildings in the country: interior and exterior, sobriety and luxury, warmth and coolness, etc. These do not express relationships of opposition but rather form magical relationships with each other.

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(C)Shimmura Takuji

塔从一个大的，纯平行的形状的体积上升，覆盖整个表面积.两个棱镜是通过对角滑动两半体积形成的，从而揭示了形状的“原始”内部。只有塔的底座完好无损，仿佛根植在地面上。这创造了一个建筑风格的阴影和光，微妙和力量。这座建筑的顶部是一个27米的悬空，这给观察者留下了强烈的印象。

The tower rises from a large, pure parallelepiped-shaped volume covering the whole surface area. Two prisms are formed by sliding two halves of the volume diagonally, thereby revealing the "original" interior of the form. Only the base of the tower remains intact as if rooted in the ground. This creates an architectural style combining shade and light, delicacy and power. The building is topped off by a 27-metre overhang, which makes a powerful impression on the observer.