Qualla: Red Location Museum https://qualla.com/red-location-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/9/f/p/red-location-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Red Location Museum https://qualla.com/red-location-museum Red Location Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/red-location-museum/ Photo credit Joziboy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Twelve corrugated iron boxes rise from the streets of New Brighton like dignified monuments to the material the community knows best. The Red Location Museum, opened on 10 November 2006 in one of the oldest townships in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), was designed to look like the informal settlement surrounding it. That was the point. Architect Jo Noero of Noero Wolff Architects understood that a gleaming glass tower would have been an insult in a neighborhood where people live in structures made of the same rusted metal. Instead, he built something that belongs, twelve boxes measuring 6 by 6 by 12 meters each, inspired by the wooden crates migrant workers once used to store their most treasured possessions when labor contracts separated them from their families in rural areas.

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/9/f/p/red-location-museum-wp/k9fp-red-location-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Red Location Museum: From Concentration Camp to Community https://qualla.com/red-location-museum/ Photo credit Joziboy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name Red Location refers to the rusted corrugated iron buildings that gave the area its distinctive color. The site carries heavy history. During the Second Boer War, it housed a British concentration camp. When the camp's residents were moved in 1900, the site became one of ...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/9/f/p/red-location-museum-wp/k9fp-red-location-museum-from-concentration-camp-to-community.mp3 0:06 2 full Red Location Museum: The World's Most Outstanding Building https://qualla.com/red-location-museum/ Photo credit Joziboy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The architectural world recognized what Noero Wolff achieved. In 2005, the museum won the World Leadership Award for Public Architecture in London. The Royal Institute of British Architects gave it their International Award in 2006, alongside the Dedallo Minosse Presidents Award ...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/9/f/p/red-location-museum-wp/k9fp-red-location-museum-the-worlds-most-outstanding-building.mp3 0:06 3 full Red Location Museum: A Museum Held Hostage by Broken Promises https://qualla.com/red-location-museum/ Photo credit Joziboy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. In October 2013, the Red Location Museum closed. It has remained closed since. The shutdown was not an administrative decision but an act of protest by the community the museum was built to celebrate. Residents of Red Location demanded that the government fix their homes, 288 of ...

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