With its death, in 1603, the work was not completed yet. The most invaluable materials had been bought of China, India.... Built in the northern part is kasba of Almohades. The palate El Badii was intended for the festivals and the solemn audiences during which the sovereign could make watch of his ostentation as much in front of the elite of the kingdom that in front of the foreign embassies.
The palatial unit consists of a large court in the form of rectangle of 135 m out of 110 m, in the medium of which a basin of 90 m out of 20 m in the center was arranged of which a monumental fountain provided with two superimposed and surmounted basins of a water jet rose. On both sides with this central basin, two depressions are covered with trees and flowers laid out in squares separated by alleys paved from zelliges. The angles of the palate are occupied by rectangular basins of 30 m out of 10 Mr. Around the immense court of the Badiâ palate organize the imposing ruins of old houses.
On both sides large central basin, rose two houses facing: one, known under the name of crystal House, was the subject of excavations which put at the day its plan while the carcass work heavy castings of the second, called Pavillon of the audiences, remain in the form of high walls. Both, with almost identical plan, were covered with a cupola to the twelve columns. The ground of the two houses was covered with zelliges which one can observe some specimen in the House of the audiences.
Two other houses, of more significant size, occupy the medium on the sides northern and southern. With the difference of the two first, the provision of the green House and House of the heliotrope, slightly in withdrawal, allowed the installation of two galleries open along the walls supported by two series of jasper columns..
The principal door which bore the name of Bab Al-Rokham, Porte marble, opened in the south-western angle of the southern face of the palate. Other doors mentioned by the chroniclers opened on the southern faces, is and western.
There does not remain large thing of the decoration of Badiâ, except some fragments of columns, stucco and earthenware squares. Indeed, Badiâ was destroyed in XVIIème century on order of the sultan Alaouite Moulay Ismaïl (1672-1727). Started towards 1696, the demolition lasted ten years. Most of its materials would have been forwarded to Meknès to be employed again in the construction of the royal city of Moulay Ismaïl.