Moroccan riad been bought by foreigners. This foreign interest has brought new challenges but the investment has helped with the restoration of the UNESCO site and has helped revive many of the handcrafts and artisan trades that were gradually being lost before this trend. Many of the restored riads in the districts of Mouassine and Lakssour offer the finest examples of restoration as historically these areas contained many of the grand palaces from Marrakech's Saadian period. Moroccan riad A riad () is a type of traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden or courtyard. The word riad originates from the
A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan display at Benesse House and Art Site, a contemporary art museum and hotel at the art village of Naoshima, Japan. The courtyard inspired a set of drawings, later a series of lithographs and finally the painting. In these works, at first the perspective is conventional, and concentrates on the central well, observing points of view from walking the courtyard. The lithograph, "Hotel Acatlán Two Weeks Later" shows almost all the characteristics of the final work. In the painting the detail of the columns is gone, the painter has vanished, but the viewer is presented with a space where distance is