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New kids on an old block | The bounty of Jo’burg | Vive le revamp!

Groucho
Brainy and cheeky. Witty and inventive. Always smoking hot.

In Johannesburg the past becomes the present in architecture, design and degustation… If Jo’burg had a mantra right now it would be “restore, recycle, revamp”. The City of Gold, settled in 1886, is a shapeshifter whose centre doesn’t always hold. Epitomising the urban renewal push is Victoria Yards, in Lorentzville, a very cool enclave reimagined…

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