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Last November 2007, I wrote this entry about J.K. Rowling's £1 billion and what I would do if I had that sort of money.
Part of that list was a desire to hire Singaporeans to restore and renovate the Luneta Hotel.

Built in 1918, the Luneta Hotel was one of the few remaining French-inspired architectural buildings in Manila.

In 2007, Beaumont Holdings, the new owner of the Luneta Hotel in Manila, announced it would be restored to its previous glory in three years’ time.

“We will make it stronger. We will not touch the facade,” Adelina Wong, an engineer of the company, said.
The hotel on T.M. Kalaw Street is one of the few remaining structures that survived World War II.

Completed in 1918, the Luneta Hotel was designed by Spanish architect-engineer Salvador Farre, and is touted as the only structure reminiscent of French Renaissance architecture with Filipino stylized beaux arts in the country. (Source: PDI)

The dilapidated building fronting Rizal Park was declared a historical landmark by the National Historical Institute and is protected by Presidential Decree 1505 which makes it unlawful to alter or destroy the original features of an edifice classified by the NHI “without prior written permission from its chair.”