For much of the 20th century, Johannesburg’s Victoria Yards was a steam laundry, used to wash hospital sheets. By the 1990s the laundry was gone, its courtyards and red-brick buildings a grim zone of dumped paint, panel beaters and chained dogs. Then, in 2016, a far-sighted developer passed the yards and saw potential for regeneration. Today, koi carp swim in its channels, murals
