WHO LIVES HERE

Architect Anthony Orelowitz lives with his wife Zahava and their family in this inspiring house in Johannesburg. Despite the sleek beauty of the design, Orelowitz compares the house to Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter series of books, referring to the secret passages and trick stairs in the fictional school. He describes it more as a system than a set structure. “You’ve got hidden passages and concealed spaces behind spaces,” he says. The ways in which the walls and screens can be opened or closed in the house means that it can also be quite magically reconfigured. It is forever shifting and changing shape. “It’s quite theatrical in a way,” he says.