At the request of Hubert Lyautey, plans for an Hôtel de Ville were first drafted by Henri Prost in 1914, early on in the French Protectorate in Morocco, and then further developed in 1920.[1] It was Marius Boyer, however, who ultimately won the administrative building's design competition in 1927.[3] Construction started in 1928 and finished in 1937.[3]