{"id":27976,"date":"2026-09-08T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/?p=27976"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:26:31","slug":"raffles-london-at-the-owo-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/raffles-london-at-the-owo-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Remarkable Rebirth of London\u2019s Old War Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For more than a century, the walls of The OWO have held London\u2019s secrets. Built in 1906 as the headquarters of Britain\u2019s War Office, this imposing Edwardian landmark stretches across an entire block of Whitehall, directly opposite Horse Guards Parade, where the King\u2019s Household Cavalry still mounts guard. Once the nerve center of Britain\u2019s military and political life, its corridors were walked by Sir Winston Churchill, military leaders and spies whose stories would become the stuff of legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, those same corridors lead somewhere rather different: to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/hotel-detail\/raffles-london-at-the-owo\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/hotel-detail\/raffles-london-at-the-owo\">Raffles London at The OWO<\/a>, which opened in 2023 as the brand\u2019s first UK property. Grand offices have become suites, historic passageways lead to award-winning restaurants and a building once devoted to affairs of state has been transformed into one of London\u2019s most intriguing addresses. The history hasn\u2019t been erased; it has simply been given a new chapter\u2014and guests are invited to discover it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Raffles London at The OWO, history is hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"stoc_hidden_slugs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[179,226,3855,4555,3381,180],"class_list":["post-27976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotel-spotlights","tag-england","tag-london","tag-pr241125","tag-raffles-hotels-resorts","tag-raffles-london-at-the-owo","tag-united-kingdom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27976"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28017,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27976\/revisions\/28017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}