Victoria Yards
Former century-old commercial laundry reborn as terraced-garden studios for artists and artisans.
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This guide to Victoria Yards in Johannesburg traces the site from 1913, when it opened as New York Laundry scrubbing hospital and prison linen for the city, through a rougher spell as a panel-beating yard, to developer Brian Green's 2015 purchase and the terraced gardens he planted between the old brick walls. Early tenant Roger Ballen, a photographer known worldwide for haunting portraits of people living on society's fringes, was among the first to move in.
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