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Untitled Document
 

 
AWARDS OF MERIT 2008
       

 

RED LOCATION MUSEUM : NEW BRIGHTON

For the CITY OF PORT ELIZABETH

by NOERO WOLFF ARCHITECTS in association with JOHN BLAIR ARCHITECTS

 


The Struggle museum is a rigorous and well expressed product of strong conceptual ideas and context, executed with a firm sense of construction and detailing.

It challenges museum as a typology and resolves in an evocative spatial experience that perceptually communicates the concept without resorting to figurative reproductions of experience and pastiche. This the architecture communicates without reliance on the housed exhibition.

As a catalytic project in the urban regeneration of the area, the project does much to contribute to the making of good urban space along its southern and eastern edges and suggests that the making of good architecture might be as much about the making of good urban space through the skilful handling of edges that frame space, as the making of iconic artefact. The building is already internationally acclaimed and is of proven merit.