“WE SHAPE OUR buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us,” Sir Winston Churchill was quoted as saying in 1943. “I, naturally, should like to see it restored in all essentials to its old form, convenience and dignity.” Although the formidable British statesman was referring to the House of Commons, he could well have been describing the Old War Office at 57 Whitehall, a building of immense historical importance intertwined with Great Britain's political and military might.
Constructed in 1906 for the British Army, the Old War Office—today abbreviated to The OWO and a Grade IIlisted Edwardian to 2015’s .
